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TIL that the genre of music played in the Mos Eisley Cantina of the Star Wars universe is know as jizz

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loLBr TIL The "International Space Station" (ISS) was built/assembled piece by piece (modules) rather than building it first on Earth and launching it in one go, due to it's sheer size
LDMP TIL that a married couple in Bosnia started cheating in online chatrooms. When they decided to meet in person, they realized they had been cheating on each other–with each other.
OGeoR TIL: Illustrator W.W. Denslow was best known as the illustrator of the original L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz books. But Denslow also created the comic strip Billy Bounce: One of the first to feature a hero with super powers. Denslow made so much money he bought an island and crowned himself king.
pb48 TIL of the Rajneeshee bioterror attack, in 1984 a cult sprayed salmonella on doorknobs and food in a town in Oregon to poison people so they would be too sick to vote and the cult could take over the town. It was the largest biological attack in U.S. history
a8GA9 TIL that the hulls of the famous first "six frigates" of the US Navy were constructed from the wood of the American live oak, a species unique to the northeastern United States with timber so dense that "a nail driven into it was nearly impossible to extract".