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TIL about The Massacre of Black Wall Street.

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5Ym8P TIL the highest-ranking Billboard 200 death metal album of all time is from the virtual band Dethklok from the show Metalocalpyse. Frontman and co-creator Brendan Small performs the vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboard, and bass in recordings; in the show he voices most of the main characters.
wLAB1 TIL about Phossy Jaw, an industrial disease that essentially rotted matchstick workers' bones from the inside out.
8j7G TIL a German WWII fighter pilot accidentally landed in Wales, giving the Allies a working specimen of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190
VG6Q TIL that Mark Hamill is the same age today (63) as Sir Alec Guiness was when Star Wars was released in 1977.
mx41R TIL that ferrock is a greener and stronger alternative to concrete by using recycled waste and absorbing carbon dioxide in its production. However, it has not taken off yet because it cost more to make and makes use of waste steel dust which could some day have potential economic uses elsewhere.