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

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loNQa TIL there's an island in Scotland owned by Tibetan Buddhists because the previous owner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary told her to give it to them.
kOZEd TIL fines were introduced to decrease the number of parents late to pickup their child from school. This actually doubled them, because people felt their tardiness was okay because they paid the fine for it.
KaJ9 TIL after his wife was denied access to a village well by upper caste members, an Indian man spent 40 days digging his own well by hand. It now quenches the thirst of an entire village of Dalit (lower caste).
XE9nE TIL that there are two species of flowering plants native to Antarctica.
g7n4 TIL that there is a street made out of wood in Philadelphia