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TIL Katt Williams is a father of eight: one biological son and seven adopted children

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jNGAa TIL about the Roland MT80s, a boombox that played MIDI files from floppy discs. It also features a metronome to help people practice learning musical instruments. Also, Roland made these kind of machines up to late 2000s when they added an USB port.
W70wN TIL: Chile has over 1300 volcanoes putting it high on the list of countries with the biggest number of volcanoes.
Ol87 TIL in 1977, the band Pink Floyd tied a giant inflatable pig to a power station as a publicity stunt. The pig broke free, and floated over Heathrow airport, where all flights had to be grounded to avoid collisions with the pig.
4Xxnw TIL that the bullet lodged inside President Garfield likely didn't cause his death. At the time, Joseph Lister's ideas about germs had been widely accepted in Europe, but American doctors were still sceptical. Garfield's doctors used unsterilised instruments, causing an infection which killed him.
Gd57 TIL That the terms ‘highbrow’ and 'lowbrow’ come from Phrenology, a pseudoscience which determines intelligence based on the shape of ones skull.