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TIL: Fish can cough through their gills

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5Y8br TIL when Led Zeppelin briefly visited India in 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were largely ignored because the locals thought that they were hippies until they played at a local venue.
wXdo TIL the Naval Investigative Service knew the term “Friend of Dorothy” referred to gay men, but misunderstood the history of the phrase and launched an investigation to find this woman named “Dorothy” who they believed was at the centre of a ring of gay military personnel.
vPR6R TIL about John Buettner-Janusch, a professor that went to jail twice; first for for manufacturing LSD, and second time for trying to poison the judge
yDEV TIL in the film Ghostbusters II (1989) a woman appearing with Bill Murray on the World of the Psychic says the world will end February 14th, 2016
grV9A TIL that, despite dying at 46, William Pitt the Younger is the second-longest serving British PM at 18 years and 343 days. The only person to serve longer was Robert Walpole.