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TIL Black Sabbath regularly had speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered to Record Plant in Los Angeles, during the recording of the album Vol 4.

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RQ6l TIL of ‘Red Shirt Guy’ who stumped a panel of World Of Warcraft devs during a Q&A at BlizzCon, 2010, after asking about an inconsistency in the lore. Later, an NPC was introduced into the game who wore a bright red shirt and was named Wildhammer Fact Checker.
w74M TIL that Unpopped popcorn is considered nonperishable and will last indefinitely if stored in ideal conditions.
Kl44 TIL that in North Korea’s Prison Camps conditions are so bad that 20 to 25 per cent of the prison population dies every year [nsfw]
XVOr TIL that Penn Jillette paints one fingernail red in memory of his mother. She told him to get a manicure because people would be looking at his hands, so he painted his left fingernail red as a joke. He now always has it painted red in memory of her.
R70b4 TIL in 2013 a dog named Killian saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter. He alerted his owners by growling and standing between the baby and the sitter whenever she was there. Suspicious, the parents left an iPhone under the sofa recording audio. The sitter was later convicted on what they heard