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TIL Rick Allen, the drummer from Def Leppard, lost an arm in a car accident in 1984. He thought he would never play again until a friend noticed him tapping his foot while listening to music and offered to develop a specially designed electronic foot pedal. He returned to the band in 1986.

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mx4GE TIL in 1960, soul singer Jesse Belvin played to Arkansas' first ever racially integrated audience. The performance was interrupted twice by white protesters. After the show, Belvin was killed in a head-on collision. It was discovered that his car tires had been slashed.
b9yaj TIL that the blobfish only looks ugly because they deflate from the pressure difference of being pulled to the surface
0deBv TIL Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers during World War II
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.
X6yX TIL that Hitler planned to rebuild Berlin after the war into a neo-roman cosmopolitan city. One state building, the Volkeshalle was to be so massive, that it could rain inside during events due to 150K peoples’ perspiration and breath.