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TIL Chinese infants were used in performance-enhancement pills

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GokE TIL there used to be an instrument called a hurdy-gurdy. Apparently, it was used for “medieval raves.”
xA01 TIL Brendan Small, co-creator and voice actor of Metalocalypse, performs the vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, and (most) bass guitar for all the studio recordings for the Dethklok music heard in the show, and is frontman for live Dethklok concerts.
4XKBo TIL The film E.T. was shown at the United Nations (1982) and Spielberg received a UN Peace Prize. Princess Diana was reportedly moved to tears by the film.
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