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TIL that Banksy made the intro for an episode of The Simpsons (S22E03)

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x6bMB TIL about the Chili grenade, a weapon made by the Indian Armed Forces that uses a weponized form of the bhut jolokia chili pepper.
x6Koo TIL of "Soundies" which were 3-minute musical films played on a jukebox in the 1940s and were considered a precursor to music videos. Over 1,800 of these mini-films were made but declined due to wartime material restrictions.
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.
D1Kog TIL of the Corrupted Blood Plague that killed everyone in the cities of World of Warcraft video game, was used as a Model for Epidemic research.
wo5l7 TIL that Leo Fender, Founder, and Inventor Of Fender Guitars Could Not Play Guitar.