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TIL that Metallica’s Lars Ulrich attended Napster co-founder Sean Parker’s wedding

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e0JP5 TIL rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival played the 1969 Woodstock festival but refused to allow their performance to be included in the movie or on the soundtrack. The Greatful Dead had just finished a long mellow set so when CCR took the stage after midnight most of the audience was asleep.
wLMB6 TIL the English language is the only language (of the most spoken languages in the world) that doesn’t have a regulator body/institution.
6909X TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use
8Y9G TIL Hitler sanctioned the construction of a six-wheeled 3,000hp Porsche intended to break the land speed record. It was 27ft long and made its power from a 44.5 liter V12
9wlwp TIL that 176 is not only an even number, but an abundant, odious, self, semipefect, practical, cake, happy, pentagonal and octagonal number