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TIL famed Grateful Dead sound engineer Better Cantor Jackson lost over 1000 original board tapes when her storage locker was liquidated in a sale. Some of the tapes inside crates were purchased by a teacher who tried to sell them for $1 million despite being offered $100,000 by the band.

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kJe5m Til poles at strip clubs spin, not the strippers on them.
ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.
LQdgr TIL Chinese residents called their settlements as Tong Yan Gai, or Street of the Tong. This referred to how Cantonese people were brought into the Chinese Empire during the Tang dynasty
5V9Z8 TIL that in 1726, an Englishwoman from Surrey tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits
4Xwlo Til that 2020 is the end of the decade instead of 2019 because the Gregorian calendar starts at 1, and there is no year zero.