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TIL musician Ice-T is the frontman of a metal band called Body Count.

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kO0l1 TIL when John Bardeen won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, the Swedish king criticized him for not bringing his children to the ceremony. Bardeen promised he would bring them the next time he won - and in 1972, he did when he became the first person to win 2 prizes in the same field.
J7A4 TIL that Macaulay Culkin (kid from Home Alone) bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes
yQmrw TIL that despite being widely publicized, the Hindenburg disaster was only the 4th worst airship disaster.
16lOO TIL that Central Asia has a variety of Mandarin Chinese that is written in the Cyrillic Alphabet. It is regarded as its own separate language called "Dungan"
46Yb TIL that despite his illegal and often homicidal tendencies, Al Capone set up multiple soup kitchens for those in need following the Stock Market crash in 1929.