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TIL that Sister Rosetta Tharpe pioneered many of the guitar techniques fundamental to modern rock/metal as early as the 30s and 40s

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M97A TIL A group of Soviet prisoners were able to revolt and seize control of their gulag for 40 days
w4QY TIL in 1992 dance/pop duo The KLF were invited to play at the BRIT awards. They unexpectedly performed with a grindcore metal band, fired machine gun blanks into the audience, announced they were leaving the music industry, dumped a dead sheep at the afterparty, and deleted their entire back catalog
0Wv1 TIL You could fit the Netherlands into Mongolia thirty-seven times! BUT you can fit Mongolian roads into the Dutch road system sixty-seven times!
ODa6 TIL many countries pay prize money to their Olympic athletes for each type of medal won. USA pays $25,000 per gold medal while Kazakhstan pays $250,000.
rL7y TIL on March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.