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TIL that Brian Jacques wrote the Redwall series for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. This is the reason for his very descriptive writing style.

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Z8bev TIL that the music used in the famous anti-pirating ads found on DVDs was, in fact, stolen.
dG8Q TIL Frank Zappa made a quilt composed entirely of panties that were thrown on stage. He did not wash them first.
rNNP1 TIL that during the Civil War, Asa Tift, a notable Salvager from Key West, Florida, and his brothers financed a ship to be built for the Confederates in Mobile, Alabama. However, after the Unions victory at Vicksburg, Tift and his brothers decided to blow up the ship rather than let it be captured.
p8ydN TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono out of $10,000 by sending her a piece of dried grass instead of a hair from his moustache