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TIL the iconic bassline from The White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’ isn’t a bass guitar. It’s a normal guitar shifted down an octave by an effects pedal

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JEyV TIL that Paul McCartney was mugged at knifepoint in Lagos, Nigeria. The thieves made off with all the demo tapes for the album Band on the Run, that he was down there to make. McCartney had to re-create the demos entirely from memory before the album could be made.
rR6Oy TIL of Canada's "Apology Act" to allow habitually apologetic Canadians to say "sorry" without implying any admission of fault or liability.
b9a1p TIL of Kari's Law. In 2013 a woman was murdered in a hotel room by her husband while her nine-year-old daughter tried to call 911 four times. The calls did not go through because the hotel phones required all calls to start with 9 (making 911 9911). The law removes the need for the 9 in hotel phones
5V0d9 TIL the voice actress for the character Eva in the 2004 video game 'Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater' was credited under the pseudonym Suzetta Miñet and it was only revealed yesterday, 2 decades after the game's release, that the VA was actually Jodi Benson, who voiced Ariel in The Little Mermaid
QlJd TIL that liquid oxygen is magnetic, and it can be moved around and even picked up with a powerful magnet.