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TIL - in 1968, Billy Joel looped some random cables around his shoulder, put on a fake Bristish accent, and pretended to be Jimi Hendrix’s roadie to sneak into a concert. He wound up being convincing enough to actually be put to work as a stagehand during the show.

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R7EN1 TIL Enlightenment era philosopher Francis Bacon died from pneumonia he got while stuffing a dead chicken full of snow. He had wanted to test if meat is preserved if frozen.
5VN1k TIL In 1907, Grace Oakeshott, a British women's rights activist, faked her death to run off with her extramarital lover. It seems her husband was in on the plan, as both found it preferable to a divorce. Grace and her lover moved to New Zealand where they had 3 children before Grace's death in 1929.
R5PX9 TIL there is a project that found a way to remove captured CO₂ permanently by making sparkling water and make a rock in the deepness of the earth drink it
neZyb TIL that there are 7 primary keyholders of the Internet. Each keyholder is chosen for their geographical spread and Internet security background to ensure that no one country has more keyholders. The keyholders are a last resort option in case something catastrophic happens to the world's Internet.
Me1GB TIL that growing up, Samuel L Jackson has a bad stutter, which got him into acting so he could ‘pretend to be someone who doesn’t stutter’ and he also at this time started to use ‘motherfucker’ as an affirmation word to help keep from stuttering.