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TIL Reminder - Main song from “O’ Brother Where Art Thou’ was an archival recording of an actual prisoner 40 years earlier. The record label tracked him down, paid him, and took him to the Grammys.

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gM8AX TIL: African Pygmy tribes were essentially atheistic and were observed to have no cults, no rites, no totems, no deities, and no spirits. Dead were buried without ceremonies or gifts and received no further attention. They even appeared to lack simple superstitions, according to travelers' reports
VOAk TIL the show “Trailer Park Boys” started on a few-hundred dollar budget that initially survived on government grants. Within a season, it became one of the most watched shows in Canada, and after being picked up by networks around the world, became the most successful Canadian TV show in history.
mjwx TIL: The population of Germany is in decline; it has fallen by 2 million in the last decade
mgpp TIL of HTTP error 451, which is used when a piece of content is unavailable due to censorship, and is a direct reference to Fahrenheit 451.
mxZlM TIL "ZIG-ZAG Man" of rolling papers fame is based on the story of a French North African soldier (Zouave) whose smoking pipe was shattered by a stray bullet during the battle of Sevastopol so he rolled his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from a musket cartridge.