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TIL in 1994 Alan Jackson protested having to play a pre-recorded version of gone country at the ACM awards by having his drummer "play" without using drumsticks.

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loWmG TIL Daily Mail editor Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler and wrote articles such as "Hurrah for the Blackshirts". The Spectator condemned Rothermere's article commenting that, "The Blackshirts, like the Daily Mail, appeal to people unaccustomed to thinking.”
OGMw7 TIL there is a hemorrhoid treatment where they are slowly strangled with tight little rubber bands.
0dddA TIL that the DeFeo family (Amityville Horror) was “mobbed up”. Ronald DeFeo Sr. was the nephew of powerful Genovese captain Peter “Philie Aquilino” DeFeo (pictured below) who was one of their top earners in his prime.
5MDR TIL that Congress is less popular than Genghis Khan, traffic jams, cockroaches, and Nickleback.
PYGkV TIL Red squirrels make mushroom jerky, hanging fungi on tree branches to dry for winter storage