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TIL That Paramore broke “The Nashville Curse” by being the first band from the Tennessee city to have an album go platinum in 20 years.

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RXBa TIL 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicate the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in sand.
OkB1 TIL a monkey’s fist knot is used as the weight in heaving a line between ship and dock. Recognizing their potential, drunken sailors began using them as melee weapons in street and bar fights with the knot eventually being adopted by street gangs of the 19th century.
VpaZ TIL in Prague beer is cheaper than water
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
P1PLw TIL that the term "spam," used to describe unsolicited bulk email, comes from a Monty Python sketch