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TIL that The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Queen, Janis Joplin, Guns N' Roses, Tupac, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead - some of the biggest names/groups in music history - have a collective ZERO competitive Grammy wins.

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woEK6 TIL Air Traffic Controllers, who were fired and banned for life by Ronald Reagan for striking, actually endorsed Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan during the election of 1980 through their union PATCO.
v1pQr TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.
e0bvn TIL the forgotten show "Time Squad" was the first cartoon produced under the "Cartoon Network" banner for their own network and not Hanna Barrera. It also featured Mark Hamill as a robot.
5YJPP TIL Orcas exploit a 'security bug' in great white sharks to immobilize and kill them. When a shark is held upside down this induces tonic immobility (TI), a sort of temporary paralysis; the orca are known to attack them in a way that induces TI and will keep them there till they suffocate.
b6yVZ TIL that 85% of American RV’s are manufactured in Indiana, and in turn 2/3 of that production takes place in Elkhart County.