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TIL after the producers of the 1994 ACM Awards told Alan Jackson he would have to sing over a backing track instead of live instrumentation, he had his drummer “play” without sticks in an act of protest (video included).

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wo5K1 TIL Out of 138,000 American Soldiers buried overseas, 60,000 are buried in France, 25,000 are buried in the Philippines, 14,000 in Belgium, 12,000 in Italy, 8,000 in a Netherlands, 5,000 in Luxembourg, 5,000 in Panama. 1000’s more in England, Tunisia, Mexico.
epPjk TIL Bluejays can make a wide variety of calls similar to hawks, ducks, and even gurgling sounds?
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
oBJMY TIL During the Civil War, the workers of Manchester England voted to support the blockade, meaning they’d get no goods for their cloth factories. Lincoln sent a most eloquent Thank You letter.
bQVZ TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.