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TIL that in order to fulfill his record contract, singer Andrew Eldritch released one album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value – Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner".

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ONM4 TIL Military service dogs always outrank their handler. This is out of respect and to prevent abuse of the dogs as the handler would be subject to severe disciplinary action for abusing a higher ranking officer.
7rMnx TIL that Commodus, a Roman emperor often portrayed in media as vile and cruel, would shoot hundreds of animals with arrows and javelins every morning, and fought as a gladiator every afternoon, winning all the fights. He was strangled by his wrestler partner and declared a public enemy post death.
p8xM8 TIL of the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg, Germany. The event was documented in a broadsheet news article at the time with claims that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.
4OWX TIL there is a Kappa Kappa Kappa (KKK) fraternity that is older than the Ku Klux Klan
478J TIL in 1950, the US produced 30% of it’s electricity from renewable sources. Today, it’s 13.5%.