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TIL Nirvana originally started out as a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band

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gMrr4 TIL that William Henry Harrison only spent a month in office.
X0GRP TIL isoprene gas released by the trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia reacts with chemicals in the air to create their characteristic blue haze
JYnP4 TIL that rock band Iron Maiden went to a restaurant after a 1984 concert in Poland. The Maidens saw a wedding inside; after a chat, they took the wedding band's instruments and began playing for the night. Guests had no idea until the groom saw that his wedding band transformed into Iron Maiden.
dDxg9 TIL the highspeed rail in Indonesia is called "Whoosh"
OogRX TIL that North Korea have tried to destroy the South Korean loudspeakers -that blast propaganda and K-pop over the border- with artillery. They resorted to shelling the speakers after a North Korean effort to retailliate in kind failed due to the decrepit state of their own soundsystem