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TIL After 9/11 the Clear Channel memorandum listed “lyrically questionable” songs that shouldn’t be played on the radio. The only band to have all of their songs on the list was Rage Against the Machine.

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65yQ TIL A man once rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster only to find out the baby was his!
nWVD9 TIL that Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (musical instrument), also invented the first ever burglar alarm, the first CCTV system, the first drum machine, and one of the first covert listening devices. He also saw both the birth and the fall of the Soviet Union, living to the age of 97.
BjWd TIL : Don King, famed boxing promoter stomped one of his employees to death, however he only spent 3 years and 11 months in jail.
kOwx5 TIL Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl from Poland who died in the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at the age of 14, wrote a diary describing her experiences, and her diary was brought to light and published in 2006
jwAE TIL: Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us