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TIL in the late 1980’s a young janitor at a recording studio started recording his own music after work, playing all the instruments. The janitor was Trent Reznor, and the music became Nine Inch Nails

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woLk1 TIL Drivers were banned from drinking alcohol during the Indianapolis 500 in 1914. This came a year after Jules Goux drank 3 bottles of champagne during the 1913 race.
K5J6 TIL that Disney World is located in and governed by the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a jurisdiction created by Disney that is exempt from all Florida land use laws
vPpD7 TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.
1aGdD TIL that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.
xbp5 TIL of a remarkable gypsy (Sinti) boxer in Nazi Germany, who after beating an ‘Aryan,’ was threatened by the Nazis into throwing his next match. He came to that match with dyed blonde hair and whiteface and lasted five rounds. His name: Johann Trollmann