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TIL Jimmy Carter’s father, sister and brother all died of pancreatic cancer in their 50s.

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LYm0 TIL the band Vulfpeck crowdfunded a free concert tour by uploading an album Sleepify to Spotify and asking their friends to play it on repeat while they slept. The album consisted only of 10 short silent tracks. Before Spotify removed the album the band had made the royalties amounting over $20,000.
r7Lo TIL: That in 1996 The New York Times crossword correctly used either candidate of the presidential election as the answer to who would be elected the next day!
x6Jrk TIL that Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes lived with psychologist Timothy Leary in the 1980s, who tested various combinations of drugs on him.
VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
4XPZ6 TIL there are seven species of perching birds named "attilas" after Attila the Hun (due to their very predatory and aggressive nature, despite their small size). Attilas are in the family Tyrannidae (the tyrant flycatchers).