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Today I Learned that the Arkansas Razorbacks are not from Little Rock. They are actually from Fayetteville, AR.

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a8e9A TIL there is a death metal band called Hatebeak. Their singer is an African grey parrot.
4XL6J TIL Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' (about a Welsh witch) and 'Angel' were based on the Mabinogion. They were the earliest prose stories in Britain (12th - 13th centuries) and were written in Welsh.
W7oPB TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued people who downloaded their torrents. The matter reached the FBI and the pirate site accepted to collaborate with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
VB4Q TIL during the filming of ‘Cabin Fever,’ Rider Strong decided to explore the forest alone after a shoot, still in his gruesome makeup. He came across a group of schoolgirls on a field trip, who were horrified, but then recognized him from 'Boy Meets World,’ and he had to escape from the fangirls.
J1Mpm TIL that Ireland has a population of Wallabies, they were introduced in the 1950s but the population took off in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo had a surplus of the marsupials