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TIL Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann was an accomplished youth swimmer in East Germany and shortlisted for the 1980 summer olympics in Moscow but a head injury ended his career.

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Y7JlB TIL country star Merle Haggard got his start in music after seeing Johnny Cash play while he was an inmate at San Quentin Prison at age 21
M7Bn8 TIL - All of Germany's federal laws & regulations are tracked in a GitHub repository
pyM8 TIL: In 1971, Hunter S Thompson ran for Sheriff of Aspen. His campaign included replacing the streets with grass, allowing controlled drug sales, and renaming Aspen “Fat City”. His candidacy was so strong that the other two candidates colluded in order to stop him from winning.
rNmYo TIL excavations near the city of Nazareth unearthed 100,000 year old human remains. The human skeletons were associated with red ochre which was found only alongside the bones, suggesting that the burials were symbolic in nature. This is the earliest evidence of symbolic burial ever discovered.
b6Bra TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military.