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TIL of Here Come the Mummies, a funk band that is rumored to have several Grammy winners among the members. They perform wearing full mummy costumes to keep their identities “under wraps”

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VpMk TIL that when James Avery auditioned for the part of Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he had no idea who Will Smith was. When he entered the room, Smith had his feet on a table and his hat on sideways. Avery told him to put his feet down and turn around his hat. He got the part.
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...
OwPg TIL that Sonny Bonno’s political legacy is the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 (derisively called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act), which extended copyright of creative works by an additional 20 years, and is referred to by many scholars as the most naked act of corporate greed in U.S. history.
DANJ TIL: In 1946, the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100,000,000 but Denmark did not agree to sell.
Wex8 TIL that a double rod pendulum creates totally unpredictable trajectories, due to the ‘chaos theory’.