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TIL parents at a school in Idaho called police on a book giveaway event for an award-winning young adult novel banned from the school curriculum because it was “anti-christian”

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EOK7 TIL that the great tradition of throwing panties at rock stars did not begin with Elvis, but with Franz Liszt
oB1Dr TIL: Leonard Nimoy only appeared once in public as Spock as the grand marshal of the Pear Blossom Parade in Medford, Oregon in 1967
6EYBY TIL That the cast of Breaking Bad became hooked on the fake meth they used to portray meth on the show.
n1KG TIL Einstein, a parrot with a vocabulary of about 200 words, gave a TED talk.
0dye5 TIL that in 2023, a radioactive capsule containing cesium-137, was lost during transport in Western Australia, prompting a large-scale search operation. Amazingly, it was found on the side of the road several weeks later and caused no injuries or sickness.