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TIL that comedian Simon Brodkin spoofed Britain’s Got Talent with a deliberately talent-less act that nonetheless pushed all the right emotional buttons to win “yes” votes from the judges.

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X0pjD TIL of the band band Too Much Joy, who were sued by Bozo the Clown for sampling him in a song, arrested on obscenity charges for covering 2 Live Crew in Florida, and had their frontman detained by the secret service after a joke he made at a concert
v1Ljx TIL Helen Keller took over the controls of a Douglas Skymaster airplane for 20 minutes while flying over the Mediterranean during a trip from Rome to Paris. The instructions were relayed from the pilot to Polly Thompson, and then to Helen through fingerspelling.
kO44d TIL the setting knob on toasters isn't a timer. It determines "doneness" by a thermal sensor that responds to how much heat is passing through the toast
BgXoe TIL an early Fax machine was demonstrated at the 1851 World's fair and the first commercial telefax service was in 1865, 11 years before the telephone.
neV0G TIL that during the height of the Cold War, President Kennedy proposed the idea that the USA and USSR should work together to land a man on the moon. This was in order to minimise costs and to avoid doubling up on R&D.