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TIL Dan Aykroyd is a co-founder of the House of Blues chain

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0dbp1 TIL: Sōhei warrior monks were influential for centuries in Japan with warring clans often enlisting these monks for warfare due to their fighting ability due to their isolation and fanaticism. However, disputes between monk temples were common which led to numerous fatal inter temple battles.
9YAep TIL that in an episode of star trek TNG aired in 1989 Picard states that Fermat's last theorem would still be unsolved 700 years in the future. Picard was wrong. The theorem was solved in 1995.
KYWow TIL that as late as 1997, the New York Stock Exchange still traded in increments of 1/8 of a US Dollar, a legacy of the old Spanish “pieces of eight” coins used in the colonial period
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