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TIL that it takes only 15 mins. of exposure to noise in a nightclub, without protection, to damage hearing

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wLLVW TIL That in 2016 a woman was seriously burnt after 'fart' caused laser to burst into flames
oWyL TIL there’s a a fake bomb detector produced in the UK that has been sold to 20 countries in the Middle East and Far East, including Iraq and Afghanistan, for as much as $60,000 per unit. The fake bomb detector is still in use by police and army in those countries.
Qb66 TIL: That Ian McDiarmid (The Emperor) was only 38 years old when Return of the Jedi was released (Harrison Ford is older then him)
4k8g6 TIL in 1955 jazz musician Wardell Gray - who played with Count Basie and Benny Goodman - was scheduled to play the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Vegas, the first integrated hotel-casino in the city. Gray never played and his body was found in the desert, with his death still a mystery.
Gk6J TIL Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall” was banned on this day in 1980 from South Africa because it had “become the anthem of a national strike of more than 10,000 "coloured” (mixed) students and their white supporters.“