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Today I learned: The train was invented before the bicycle.

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DLKY TIL Lemmy’s aim for Motorhead was that it would “be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die”
71Gp TIL of an Italian named Fabrizio Quattrocchi who yelled “I’ll show you how an Italian dies!” while trying to remove his hood before being executed by his Iraqi kidnappers.
Nnr6 TIL that Gene Wilder stopped making movies because he didn’t want to make films filled with violence, profanity and nudity.