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TIL actor Joe Pesci started as a singer and guitar player and played in the same band as Jimi Hendrix

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epkdn TIL about the CFA franc, a currency system for 14 former French colonies that’s managed in France and pegged to the Euro making monetary independence for the member nations all but impossible
oBZZL TIL that in 2013 a zoo in China tried to pass off a hairy dog as a lion
jNLDp TIL 13-yr-old Canadian boy Briar MacLean shoved a knife-wielding bully away from a classmate. School officials put Briar in detention and phoned his mother to say that he was wrong to act on his own, and they didn't "condone heroics." His mom rewarded her son & his friend with a trip to Disneyland.
KOPBw TIL in 2008, Maple Leaf foods found that their meat was contaminated by listeria bacteria, and instead of covering it up , the CEO went on TV and accepted responsibility for the disaster, apologized to the public and recalled $20 million worth of food products.
WoXd TIL At the Battle of Klushino in 1610, The Polish Winged Hussars were outnumbered ten to one, and still somehow came out on top, utterly annihilating an army of 40,000 Swedes and Russians with just 4,000 Winged Hussars.