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TIL Giorgio Moroder created the revolutionary bassline to I Feel Love after being disappointed at how unfuturistic the Cantina band was in Star Wars.

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YpgW TIL: Skateboarding is becoming popular in Afghanistan - especially amongst women
VBQNQ TIL after 9/11, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) sent an internal memo to program directors containing "lyrically questionable" songs they suggested should be avoided. It included "What A Wonderful World", "New York, New York", and Rage Against the Machine's entire discography.
rRLpx TIL the videocassette is credited for having ended the "Golden Age of Porn", as the rise of home video pornography in the 80s led to the genre becoming more low-budget and gratuitous.
xGnD TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not given a date of execution. They are notified just a few hours before, and their families are not notified until they are dead.