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TIL the song "Slippin into Darkness" by WAR musically inspired "Get Up, Stand Up" by Tosh/Marley and was Marley's last song performed live.

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5YbQD TIL that the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" set a Guinness World Records record title for most swearing in one film. Saying the f-word 506 times with an average of 2.81 times per minute.
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.
9YRar TIL the song Over the River and Through the Wood is actually about Thanksgiving, and although we don't usually associate Thanksgiving with snow, at the time it was written, in the early 19th century, New England was going through the Little Ice Age.
QNLKE TIL Lemmy.World allows users to have animated webp avatars and banners.
mxQkx TIL in Canada you can borrow a radon detector kit from a library (for free).