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TIL Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums

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Vbb0 TIL that up until 2 years ago, Hawaii cops were allowed to have sex with prostitutes.
85YL TIL that the genetic testing of a boy who died 12,500 years ago proved that descendants of all Native Americans, including South & Central American tribes, can be traced back at least 24,000 years to a group of early Asians and Europeans who mated near Lake Baikal in what is now Siberia.
50bR TIL Pringles are technically not potato chips but a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and some potato flakes
v17GL TIL the tritone was never banned by the Catholic church; it was called "the devil in music" in one medieval music theory text because its vibrations made it technically difficult to sing. The tritone was not literally associated with the concept of evil until Black Sabbath popularized the myth.
pYaM8 TIL that in many Indian languages, the words for 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' are the same.