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TIL over 133,000 people signed a petition stating they would prefer a different artist to headline instead of Kanye West at the Glastonbury Music Festival 2015

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8eQwP TIL Bailey, the mascot of the LA Kings was named in memory of Garnet "Ace" Bailey, the team's director of pro scouting who was killed aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into WTC South Tower on 9/11
JYga8 TIL Tatooine from Star Wars is a real town in Tunisia spelled Tataouine and famous for its cave dwellings
kJ8R7 TIL the East Palestine crash isn't the first time Norfolk Southern has had a major hazmat train derailment. In 2005, a Norfolk Southern train crashed into a textile mill, releasing 60 tons of chlorine gas, putting 4,000 people out of work, and costing $215 million to settle.
XEvWj TIL Elvis Presley probably died of constipation. He died in 1977, while straining on the stool. The autopsy showed Presley had an enlarged "megacolon," horribly impacted with clay like material from a barium X-ray procedure that the King went through four months earlier.
Gvaj TIL that Steven Colbert went before congress in character to defend Agricultural Job visas for immigrants.