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TIL Toto -- the band who made "Africa" and "Rosanna", was the band that played the music for Michael Jackson's THRILLER (!)

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j6XVQ TIL the Indian festival of Thaipusam involves carrying a Vel kavadi, a portable altar up to 2m (6 ft 7 in) tall and weighing up to 30 kg (66 lb). It is adorned with peacock feathers and attached to the devotee's body using multiple skewers and metal hooks pierced into the skin in the chest and back.
yJmV TIL David Bowie, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Bernard Shaw, And H.G. Wells, Among Others, All Declined Knighthood
yQlRw TIL In 1891, Tesla made a risky Demonstration to discredit Edison company's claims on Safety of AC.During the Demo, For a moment, 250,000 volts raced across the surface of his body , causing him to be surrounded by what one newspaper called “the Effulgent Glory of Myriad Tongues of Electric Flame.”
6MNY TIL CostCo sells a pallet of food for a family of four to live off of for 1 year.
NYvP TIL there are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide.