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loVBA TIL Scott Joplin, who brought syncopation to modern music through ragtime, doesn't own any of his music. He received 10 free albums, and one cent per album sold.
LQN9P TIL that most states in the USA have an official state fossil, for example the Stegosaurus stenops for Colorado.
X0vk8 TIL the reason you can’t go up in the Statue of Liberty’s torch is because of shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans in 1916 to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.
DraV TIL while shooting a video for his single “Smooth Criminal,” Michael Jackson devised a dance routine where he leaned forward 45 degrees and wires were used to create the impression. Then, Michael invented and patented a special shoe that allowed him to lean forward without wires.
69oMm TIL of the Pierce Arrow armoured anti aircraft lorry deployed by the Royal Marine Artillery in the First World War. Used from 1915 to 1917, it shot down over twenty enemy aircraft, having take out the first of these within two days of deployment.