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TIL that due to decades of fire prevention leading to an increase in fuel for forest fires, Smokey Bear has actually helped make forest fires more dangerous than otherwise

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69bg8 TIL a poll of 1,000 US visitors to Scotland found 33% thought haggis was an animal; 23% said they came to Scotland believing they could catch one. Haggis is a Scottish pudding traditionally boiled in a sheep's stomach filled with liver, heart, lung, oatmeal, suet, stock, onions and spices.
4XjDJ TIL Waylon Jennings asked for a $25k advance on his royalties in '72; RCA countered with $5k. When a mtg on it between him, his business mgr and the RCA bosses went silent, he walked out to take a piss. Upon returning he had a deal for the $25k advance and creative control over his next album.
e0jkb TIL that the RUSH song "Red Barchetta" was based on a Sci Fi story of a near future where drivers of large, heavy and very crash worthy modern cars would hunt drivers of older, more fragile conventional cars and crash into them for sport and drive away unscathed.
LkZNP TIL of "King Neptune", a 700 lb pig that was "auctioned" piece by piece, including the Squeal, at fundraisers during WWII across Southern Illinois. He raised $19 Million Dollars ($271 Million in 2021) over a few years and was never slaughtered, living a peaceful postwar retirement.
0wWxR TIL that an 8-year-old boy was tied to a tree and set on fire. Thanks to a deposition he gave on his deathbed, his family was awarded $150 billion in damages.