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TIL Metallica was told that expletives were prohibited during their performance at the 1996 MTV Europe awards performance. They were expected to play a slow song from their new album. Instead, they played the two most offensive songs that they had.

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Z81Y4 TIL that “World’s quietest rally race” exists: it’s a rally race which only the electric vehicles can participate in and it’s held annualy in Croatia, the birthplace of Nikola Tesla - ingenious inventor who discovered and developed alternating current electricity we use today
expJ TIL Papua New Guinea has the highest number of languages spoken with a whopping 820 different languages.
KVnw TIL in 1996, future pop singer James Blunt, then a British Army Officer deployed to Kosovo, was ordered by the NATO Supreme Allied Commander to forcibly take an airport occupied by Russian troops, but he refused, saying he was, “not going to start the Third World War.”
0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
J1NkB TIL Mel Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazis played their propaganda over loudspeakers, he responded by setting up his own sound system and playing music by Jewish singer Al Jolson.