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TIL Neil Young said “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around”

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P7We TIL the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, declared his intention to send £10,000 to aid Ireland’s farmers. However, Queen Victoria intervened and requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, because she had sent only £2,000 herself.
4kg56 TIL General Montgomery had two puppies which travelled with him during WWII and he named them 'Hitler' and 'Rommel'.
wLrE TIL that Michael Jackson’s famous “lean” in Smooth Criminal was made possible through a special patented “anti-gravity illusion” shoe.
eRyJ TIL There are two mystery safes in Jersey City, NJ City Hall that are going to be cracked this Tuesday at noon. Nobody knows why they were secretly installed over 60 years ago.
pYxab TIL that before Dieselgate Volkswagon gassed Java Monkeys (and humans) with car exhaust to see if their diesel engines actually ran more cleanly than other cars