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TIL in 1963 the FBI investigated five teenagers from Portland who called their band "The Kingsman" and had recorded "Louie Louie" because J. Edgar Hoover believed the song was salacious and was corrupting the nation's youth.

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DQ0Bp TIL That the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in Iran in 1972. In some places over 25 feet of snow fell.
W7OOd TIL no film has ever won all four acting awards at the Oscars (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, & Best Supporting Actress) and only three films have ever won three out of the four: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
Qx5a TIL Gary Lineker once said “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
e0WAJ TIL that kangaroos and other marsupials have three vaginas and that a female kangaroo can be perpetually pregnant.
j69yn TIL that NASA engineers created a set of beauty products because they thought astronauts might want to wear makeup during their space missions