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TIL Muhammad Ali, with his poems, is regarded also as one of the earliest pioneers in Hip Hop

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yQ1BX TIL in 1989 Meat Loaf, his career floundering, was booked on a ram­shackle tour of some of Ireland’s worst com­mu­nity cen­tres, ball­rooms, hotel func­tion rooms, sheds and fields. He walked off-stage at a gig in Moate after he was pelted with beer cans, glasses, bot­tles, shoes, and a wheelchair
7rpPp TIL the word 'grenade' comes from the French word for pomegranate whose outer appearance and seeds resemble a grenade and its fragments
6aX TIL that the Irish Elk was the largest deer which ever lived. They would often grow to 7ft at the shoulders and they had the largest antlers of any known deer at 12ft from tip to tip
8P9Z TIL that mentally doing a task makes you better at it. You can train your music skills or your muscles just by imagining the training. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
KO8QR TIL of a Kansas home in 2002 that was infested with over two thousand Brown Recluse spiders and the family of four was never bitten.