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TIL there is one volcanic eruption in Iceland every 5 years on average

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5YdGr TIL a man hit his head and suffered memory loss, but a few days later he became a piano master randomly.
R7P14 TIL in 72, after Led Zeppelin had released 4 platinum albums, a festival mgr. wrote manager Peter Grant requesting a booking of "Led Zeppelin and his backing group." Grant replied by taking out a full page ad in a music industry publication in the form of a letter captioned, "Mr. Zeppelin regrets."
6E197 TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.
nN8P TIL that in the USA people often fire their guns into the air on New Year’s Eve. Between ‘85 and '92, 38 people died from the falling bullets in LA alone.