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TIL Ben Folds leaked his own album, but with a mix of real singles and fake songs. The band wrote and recorded six joke tracks in just one day, bundled them with genuine singles, and leaked the "album" online.

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awP9M TIL Duke Jaromir, blind and castrated, was ruthlessly murdered by a Vrsovetz assassin, who struck him with a spear in the groin when Jaromir was carrying out his nightly needs
QJ18e TIL of Richard Pavlick, a retired postal worker who slipped past the Secret Service on a mission to assassinate president-elect JFK in 1960. Pavlick decided not to attempt the assassination because he did not wish to harm Kennedy's wife and children.