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TIL that 160,00 people simultaneously sang Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places", at the start of a NASCAR event in 2009. This earned a Guinness World Record for largest karaoke.

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8aNxZ TIL in 2003, a woman found a stolen painting worth $1 million in the trash on a NYC curb. She felt it "had power" and took it without knowing its origin or value. She spent 4 years researching it and discovered it’d been stolen in 1987. She got a $15,000 reward plus a % of its $1,049,000 sale price.
mxOrO TIL about Snuggles who is a mouse that ate heroin left on a table. Overdosing on the heroin, Snuggles the mouse was unresponsive and barely breathing when brought into an overdose prevention site in Vancouver B.C. Volunteers at the site administered Narcan and was able to save Snuggles's life.
X8kX TIL of the town of Ixonia, Wisconsin. It was formed when the town of Union was split into two new towns in 1846; residents couldn’t agree on a name, so Ixonia was chosen by drawing letters at random
lPdV TIL that once needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at 13, a man by the name of James Harrison vowed to donate blood once he turned 18. It was found out that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood about 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
69XyZ TIL the first artificial ice rinks were made using hog's lard and salts