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TIL that the man who discovered Jimi Hendrix and later managed him, was musician Chas Chandler, who played bass guitar on the Animals’ 1964 rendition of "House of the Rising Sun".

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Z8yyB TIL that one of the earliest uses for the term Round Robin was a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified, a mutiny on a ship for example.
ad4o TIL Wikipedia has a page that details the lame edit wars that have occurred on the site.
WDPY TIL JCPenney tried to do away with fake retail sales and implemented flat rate pricing. They failed miserably and lost 700 million dollars.
AKxB TIL in the Harry Potter series, Tom Riddle has a different name depending on which language the book is in, in order to preserve the anagram in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
KYAR TIL that during a duel-related brawl, Jim Bowie got shot, pistol-whipped so hard the gun broke, and impaled with a sword cane. With the sword still in his chest, he disemboweled his attacker before getting shot and stabbed again by someone else. He lived and went on to fight at the Alamo.