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TIL during the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull (which resulted in the several day closure of European airspace) one of the only European airports to remain open was Iceland's Keflavík International Airport.

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7rEPZ TIL that front singer of a-Ha had a long relationship with the woman from the "Take On Me" music video that started while producing the music video.
rNBBw TIL of the intense fued between James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", and Joe Tex. It got so bad Brown turned up to a club they were performing at and started a fight where 7 people were shot. Afterwards, a man gave "each one of the injured a hundred dollars apiece not to carry it no further".
goJA TIL Because of its popularity as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has the longest theatrical run in history (almost 38 years and counting).
ep6OE TIL about the Mapogo lion coalition, a gang of male lions who ruled over 170,000 acres of South Africa
kyB1 TIL Tupac Shakur’s favourite song was the folk-pop ‘Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)’ by Don McLean and so on his deathbed his girlfriend played this song so it was the last thing that he heard.