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TIL of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery driver who alleged to have been taken hostage with a bomb around his neck and instructed to rob a bank

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0dZ1A TIL that emergency and civil defense sirens are called such because an early model could make sound underwater, like the seaborn sirens of Greek mythology
LYV TIL Bryan Adams was approached for use of his song “Only the Strong Survive” on the Top Gun soundtrack. He did not want to be associated with a film glorifying war, so he declined permission.
KMyJ TIL Owsley Stanley, the soundguy for the Grateful Dead, was the first person to mass produce LSD, distributing over 1.25 million doses in just two years.
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WJe8 TIL the city of Rome banned goldfish bowls in 2005, stating them to be “cruel”.