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TIL that workers at Nashville airport handled a cellist’s case so roughly they managed to break both the case and the cello inside it. The airline called it a ‘baggage handling irregularity’

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oR9k8 TIL: The etiquette of dueling in America has 25 rules for both guns and sword duels. An insult to one's lady is considered a great offense and the first 10~ rules involve the pre duel banter and gives several chances for apologies or to insult the other party more.
e0yjk TIL that the Doors' drummer John Densmore vetoed an offer by Cadillac of $15 million to use "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" for advertisement, citing lead singer Jim Morrison's historic and vehement opposition to licensing the Doors' music
BWkK TIL that following the deadly 1977 crash of the plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd into a Mississippi swamp, the survivors sought help at a nearby farmhouse, only to have the farmer who lived there shoot the band’s drummer in the shoulder.
p8p68 TIL the Kazakh singer/songwriter Dimash Kudaibergen has a vocal range of 6 octaves and 5 semitones and has performed songs in 12 different languages.
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