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TIL that Nicholas Cage has a Goth Son who sang in a Black Metal band and invented a genre called "Ghost Metal" in which he incorporates ancient instruments, like the Bouzouki, to invoke a "ghostly feeling".

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epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.
b9Pvp TIL In 1982, Dolph Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney
8ePra TIL a nursing home in Finland gives subsidised accommodation to a select few students with the agreement that they spend time with the elderly
VMo7D TIL that the pied piper is a legend, not a fairy tale. 'The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which states: "It is 100 years since our children left."'
xxQo TIL that one of the most accomplished American female recurve archers, Erika Eiffel, is married to the Eiffel Tower, dated her bow, and had a decades-long relationship with the Berlin Wall. She is currently dating a crane.