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TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield

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JYlLj TIL: Joshua Bell a famous violinist, in a social experiment, played violin outside a metro station in DC, 1097 passed, only a few of them stopped a little bit. After 45 min, and 6 pieces played, he collected $32. Three days prior to that, he sold out a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
W7w98 TIL David Bowie was born David Jones. When starting out, Davy Jones of The Monkees was already famous and so he had to choose a different stage name. His first choice was Tom Jones.
4kr9a TIL Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in the 1890s. Although many link the novel to Vlad the Impaler, Stoker’s notes don’t mention him. Instead, he found the name "Dracula" in a library, mistakenly believing it meant "devil" in Romanian.
x6kl5 TIL About The World Ice Theory, a Flat Earth-like pseudo-scientific theory that was popular among Nazis and Hitler himself because it was an alternative to mainstream actual science which they viewed as Jewish and soulless.
ADwV7 TIL: Wearing a tie may seriously damage your body and eyesight