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TIL that in 2013 Metallica became the first band to play on all seven continents after performing for a group of scientists in Antartica in a show dubbed “Freeze ‘Em All”

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woEaM TIL Waffle House cooks use a code written in food to remember an order that was yelled in.
kwog TIL that DUI checkpoints are illegal in 11 states because they are considered to be a violation of the 4th Amendment due to drivers being stopped without reason
NXDb TIL that a man mistakenly identified as a rapist served nearly 11 years in prison before the truth came out, and now spends his time travelling with the victim to promote awareness of false eyewitness testimony
ad9M TIL Jimmy Fallon initially majored in Computer Science but dropped out a semester shy of a degree and switched to Communications. “I got out once it got really hard. I made it up to C++. Then I couldn’t do the math – it got really confusing.”
J1lAV TIL: There is a figure known as the "unluckiest man in Pompeii". In 2018, archaeologists uncovered his skeleton and a rock where his head should've been, he got struck by the rock and his skull was found in a tunnel a distance away.