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TIL of Stovokor, a heavy metal band that dresses up as Klingons and sings all songs in Klingon.

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QyOd TIL Attila the Hun misinterpreted a letter from a Roman Princess and thought she had asked to marry him. Although his army was significantly weakened, he marched on Rome to claim his newest wife, and was defeated
gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."
mxbYO TIL that after the Coalition Wars, which Napoleon lost for France, a summit was held in Vienna to provide a peace plan for Europe - the so-called Congress of Vienna. It lasted more than 8 months.
5VQ9p TIL the Higgs-Boson Particle, aka "the God Particle", was actually called "the Goddamn Particle" by physicists because it was so difficult to detect. Publishers forced the rename, resulting in a confusing tie to religion for the particle which is nearly universally hated by physicists.
7rnPX TIL that for the James Bond movies, Goldfinger and Thunderball, Aston Martin produced two Aston M DB5 prototypes. The one was auctioned for $4.6M in 2010. The other car, which appeared in the comedy "The Cannonball Run," was stolen from its Florida-based owner in 1997 and has never been recovered.