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TIL Needle Time restrictions limited the BBC to broadcast the amount of gramophone music to a maximum of 5 hours a day up until 1967, and modified rules for BBC 1 and BBC 2 affected record music played until 1988.

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7rgPP TIL Of Jack Tueller, a WWII soldier who was also a trumpet player and carried his instrument everywhere with him. He believes it saved his life from a German sniper in France. Figuring his enemy was just a scared kid like him, Jack played a love song before he set out. The sniper never fired.
9Yy4Q TIL that Cowboys didn’t actually wear cowboy hats. ????????????
womV8 TIL that there was a fish-eating dinosaur called "Irritator" that lived in Brazil. It got its name because paleontologists were confused and annoyed by how a complete skull of the dinosaur was artificially elongated by a fossil dealer using bone from other parts of the body and car body filler.
yoKe TIL Today is the 197th birthday of the author of the first computer algorithm, Ada Lovelace.
eQvn TIL after doing a 15-year study, a sports medicine Professor suggested women should stop wearing bras.