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TIL Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that it caused callus tissue on his lips. He would remove it himself with a razor blade.

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Xnl8 TIL there is a micro-nation named the Principality of Sealand 6 miles off the coast of Britain with an area of 6 acres. On 7/24 this year they hosted the first ever ‘Half-Marathon of Sealand’, which involved a treadmill.
rRrnW TIL the Ice cream truck jingle has a name: The Turkey and the Straw
Bkbx TIL that Charles Ramsay, who stopped eating his Big Mac to save the three women kidnapped in Cleveland, was awarded the elusive McGold card which gives you free McDonalds for life
9W6M TIL that between 1947 & 1948 the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded prison and chain gang songs in Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries. They are incredible.
61NW TIL of Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-born internationally renowned professor of aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He survived the holocaust. At age 76 he held the door of his classroom shut while the gunman attempted to enter it. Although shot 5 times, only 1 of his 23 students died that day.