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TIL Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism, played piano in a Baptist church as a young boy.

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kOJk7 TIL Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant was horrifiied when his Honeydrippers ballad "Sea of Love" became his best-selling single. He was sure his career would be ruined, the industry seeing him as a love singer instead of a rock artist.
mxWQE TIL of Sir Alexander Cuming, a Scottish nobleman who traveled to the southeast US based off a dream of his wife. He became chief of the Cherokee Nation, defrauded several colonists, and attempted to turn South Carolina into a new Jewish homeland. He later became an alchemist and died in a poorhouse
WkGY4 TIL that sponges are living animals and were the first animals to diverge from the evolutionary tree from all animals' common ancestor, making them the sister group of all other animals.
VMrdQ TIL that Francisco Macías Nguema, the first President of Equatorial Guinea, was paranoid of educated people, because he had failed the entrance exams to the colonial civil service three times - so he killed everyone who wore glasses, which he saw as a sure sign of superior educational accomplishment
oRBGE TIL The Blue Angels, the U.S. Flight Navy Demonstration Squadron, formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. They changed their name after seeing the New York nightclub, The Blue Angel. The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.