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TIL House of Pain is not actually from Boston but rather LA.

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N7VP6 TIL that two brothers from a set of triplets fooled a Russian prison when one brother swapped places with the other to give him a brief taste of freedom. Rather than returning, the freed brother ran off with his brother's girlfriend. It took years for the authorities to realize they had been duped.
Vbn0 TIL that “Bennie And The Jets” by Elton John ISN’T a live recording but that producer Gus Dudgeon wanted a live feel on the recording, so he mixed in crowd noise and whistles into the song.
nwOd TIL a radio station offered six figures to anyone that would get a tattoo of the station’s logo onto their forehead. A man and his stepson did so and upon requesting the money they were told they “weren’t entitled to anything.”
e0YGb TIL that the chief baker on the Titanic, Charles Joughin, drank an entire bottle of whiskey as the ship sank and spent 3 hours in the -2°c waters before he was rescued alive
POxZ TIL Washington State allows you to give your kids alcohol as long as they consume it in front of you (Subsection 3)