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TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.

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b9ZJp TIL triathlon bikes have a different frame geometry than regular road cycles not only for improved aerodynamics but also minimize the overlap of muscles that will be used in the running portion of the race. Apparently this makes triathlon bikes extremely unpleasant to ride comparatively
XQ8D TIL The Witcher 3 script is 450,000 words (roughly equal to 4 novels). It took 950 voice actors and 2.5 years to complete the voice recording
eYLD TIL The Cure once played a four-hour concert during which they played 50 songs.
GYKXN TIL that at the end of The Notorious BIG's song "Respect" there is real audio of Biggie getting pleased by a female in the studio.
yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures