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TIL Alice In Chains began recording “Dirt” in LA on April 29, 1992, the first day of the riots. They broke to Joshua Tree to process the experience and continue writing before returning to finish the album.

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oy8r TIL the 300 different NPCs in GTA San Andreas are voiced with as much as 60,000 possible lines, making it almost impossible for any one player to have “heard” the full game audio.
nWed TIL a technique called “circular breathing” allowed a saxophone player to hold an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds.
Y7mjr TIL that we discovered the Loch Ness Monster was a hoax because of a chance deathbed confession In 1994. Marmaduke did it to get petty revenge on the Daily Mail for ridiculing him. He faked the famous photo using playdough and a toy submarine.
PxkO TIL California (population 37,000,000) has only 58 more bars than Wisconsin (population 5,600,000)
GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s