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TIL Artimus Pyle, the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, once entered the stage by being lowered on a trapeze rope while hallucinating on mescaline.

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PYmpV TIL of The World Islands located 2.5 miles off the coast of Dubai in the Persian Gulf. The 300 artificial islands range from 150,000 to 450,000 sq. ft. in area & consist of 321 million cubic metres of sand & 386 million tons of rock.
yere TIL the original version of the French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost in a fire, the master negatives were found 53 years later in a Norwegian mental institute by a janitor in a closet.
7DGP TIL When Five Guys opened up, they received an order from the Pentagon. When Five Guys asked what time they were going to pick up the order, an admiral got on the phone and told them “everyone delivers to the Pentagon.” Five Guys then put up a banner that read “ABSOLUTELY NO DELIVERY.”
QN4ZM TIL Einstein’s first wife was the only female in the University of Zurich’s physics department. She was not considered a beauty by her classmates and walked with a limp due to a congenital hip defect
0Ddy TIL that in Japan, women use the euphemism ‘Sailor Moon is visiting’ for when they’re on their period. To capitalize on this, the creators of Sailor Moon released an officially-licensed range of character-themed menstrual pads.