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TIL the music video for Mint Royale's "Blue Song" was the direct inspiration for the 2017 feature film Baby Driver

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6jd7 TIL that AC/DC once changed the name on their tour bus to “Singers for Christ” in order to pass through Tipper Gore’s “Moral Majority” protest on the way to a gig in Florida.
ANoLx TIL that in 1932, as a last ditch attempt to prevent Hitler from taking power, Brüning (the german chancellor) tried to restore the monarchy.
GYG9g TIL that in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sent snowplows instead of tractors to Guinea to win them over and that the US government sent parkas to help the government of the Philipines instead of emergency medical military aid during the Reagan era.
erp5 TIL a man sued Blue Man Group claiming he suffered permanent damage to his esophagus when the performers shoved a camera down his throat. It was revealed that it was a camera trick and nothing entered the mans mouth as the live footage was actually a pre recorded medical video
rRY0o TIL that the former tallest and oldest Cypress tree on Earth, estimated to be 3,500 years old, was burned down after a woman tried to smoke meth under it.