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TIL The band Phoenix once played a secret concert at a high school in Austin. To attend, the students needed to have perfect attendance.

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awKGL TIL Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.
v7XL TIL the parents of Donald Duck are Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck, Hortense being the sister of Scrooge McDuck and grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.
WNwd TIL, whereas WWI killed over 10 million people, it was followed by the flu pandemic that killed upwards of 100 million.
OQBa TIL there was a dutch man born in 1912, Mirin Dajo, who willingly had an actual sword thrust through his body multiple times without organ damage. He was taught this method by Indian mystics and performed it in public.
VMmMZ TIL: When Bertrand Russell, one of the most peaceful men who ever lived, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, his solution to warmongering was to have artificial, mechanical shark-filled waterfalls for warmongers to navigate via rickety canoe.