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TIL in 2016 a man found an extremely obscure CD with no information available about the band, resulting in a 4 year online search for band members, who have now reformed and produced a second album, more than 20 years after the first

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j6P9N TIL Robert Fripp, Guitarist and Founder of King Crimson composed the Windows Vista startup sound
7r5yX TIL that there has never been a documented case of a stranger intentionally poisoning a trick-or-treater by tampering with candy; the closest case was Ronald Clark O’Bryan, who laced his own child's candy with cyanide, as part of a scheme to claim life insurance
Ona4 TIL the game Settlers III had a peculiar piracy protection: in pirated versions of the game, iron smelters would only produce pigs instead of iron, which made weapon production impossible.
OoGKe TIL roman emperor Diocletian retired in 305 AD to grow cabbages and tend to his vegetable gardens.
LQBX0 TIL a sheep in New Zealand avoided being caught and shorn by hiding in caves for 6 years. When finally found, his fleece contained enough wool to make 20 large men's suits.