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TIL when Nick GaS shut down in December 2007, Dish Network kept an automated loop of the network still on the air for 15 months

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XdXD TIL Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin’s manager, is reported to have secured 90% of gate money from concerts performed by them. His trust and loyalty to Led Zeppelin was such that his managerial arrangement with the band was via a gentlemen’s agreement
klWd TIL the longest work of fiction ever written is a Super Smash Bros. fanfic. As of last year, it was 3,548,615 words long, six times longer than “War and Peace.”
PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”
WkV8A TIL Raccoons are an invasive species in Central Europe and Japan
yWWv TIL After the attack on Pearl harbor, Hawaii was issued their own currency in case the Japanese was successful in taking over the island.