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TIL Perry Farrell, frontman for Jane's Addiction, is the only person who has performed at all twelve Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals to date, having appeared under five different names.

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Yp5Rx TIL about Revolt, a book in which farm animals revolt and take over their farm in order to introduce equality, with things quickly denigrating into abuse and terror. The story was meant as a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution and was published 21 years before George Orwell's Animal Farm.
kK5B TIL Hugh Laurie wangled himself a Burger King ‘crown card’, entitling him to free food for life, by pretending he already had one.
67Xw TIL that 3 specially trained beluga whales were placed in a ‘whale paddock’ at the mouth of Sochi Harbor to protect the port from underwater infiltration while the olympics take place
L91V TIL, every year on August 5th the Mars Curiosity rover is programmed to sing itself happy birthday
VM00p TIL of the "Tetris Effect" which occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.