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TIL: When chicago radio station “the loop” was replaced by a Christian music station. They signed off with highway to hell!

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PYe5O TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist, birth control supporter, and helped found the ALCU in 1920.
p8BGZ TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
7QoP TIL that the folklore of the indigenous people of Flores, Indonesia tells of short, hairy humanoids who spoke their own language. In 2003, archaeologists found fossils of dwarf humanoids on Flores – which were 13,000 years old.
GYdd5 TIL that Stan Lee, the co-creator of comic book characters including Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Daredevil and the X-Men which have populated a film series that has grossed more than $11bn worldwide, was a victim of elder abuse by his business manager Keya Morgan.
5yer TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.