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TIL Radio stations refused to play Cher’s first single because they thought her low voice was a gay man singing a love song about the Beatles’ Ringo Starr

by whatilearned June 1, 2023, 9:20 pm

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TIL about Harry R. Truman, who became a folk hero because he refused to evacuate from the St. Helen volcano and died during the eruption.

by whatilearned May 30, 2023, 6:40 am

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TIL Steve Jobs could have avoided a premature death from cancer by having it properly treated, he refused it for 9 months, believing an alternative-medicine diet would be better. It was one of Steve Jobs’ most notable regrets.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 11:17 am

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TIL in 1800’s New York City, pigs roamed freely and ate trash in the streets. When city government attempted to ban them in 1821, pig owners refused and rioted, causing the government to suspend their efforts. Over the next 28 years, owners continued to riot anytime the city tried to ban pigs.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 3:40 am

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TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of “Game of Thrones” she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne.

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 1:19 pm

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TIL, in 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S, Carolina when a 9 yr old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

by whatilearned May 22, 2023, 1:58 pm

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TIL the Danish city of Aabenraa, the first city listed alphabetically on earth, refused to change its name after the Danish Language Board changed Danish spelling standards in the 1940s/50s because in Danish, ‘Å’ is the last letter of the alphabet

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 7:55 pm

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TIL The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded their album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in the mansion Harry Houdini allegedly once lived in, as the band wanted to record in an unusual setting to enhance their creative output. Drummer Chad Smith was convinced the house was haunted and refused to stay in the house.

by whatilearned May 10, 2023, 4:42 pm

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TIL an airline passenger forced an emergency landing when they refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You”

by whatilearned May 6, 2023, 1:41 am

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TIL in 2007, North Korea accused Finland of human rights violations after tear gas was used on North Korean diplomats who refused to cooperate with Finnish customs officials on a train from Moscow to Helsinki.

by whatilearned May 5, 2023, 5:16 pm

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TIL in 1945 the captain of a US Destroyer refused an order to scuttle the damaged ship as there were children on board. He returned the ship safely to port and was awarded the Silver Star

by whatilearned April 30, 2023, 11:48 pm

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TIL in 2018 a flatulent passenger who refused to stop farting forced a plane to land and police to be called to remove four fliers after a fight erupts on board.

by whatilearned April 25, 2023, 1:13 am

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