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TIL that in 2006, the RIAA successfully took down a community-generated collection of 34,000 guitar transcriptions that had been compiled over 14 years

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R7MvQ TIL the sky in the famous painting "The Scream" is red probably because of the worldwide effects of Krakatoa's eruption in 1883, which launched particles in the air that changed the sky color for about 5 months
kOjBe TIL that the saying, " It takes 10,000 hours to be an expert" only applies for ultra-competitive expertise. In reality, you can learn and be pretty good at anything within 20 hours.
KYE4E TIL He consumed 63 cups of coffee, this is what happened.
loEaA TIL in 2009 US-Australian astronomers discovered the least windiest place on earth. Ridge A on the Antarctic Plateau is so calm that "the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope there would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth."
NRLe TIL Marty Robbins, singer of Big Iron, raced in NASCAR. In the 1972 Talladega 500, his laps were 15mph faster than his qualifying time. After the race, he turned down the Rookie of the Race award and admitted that he removed the carb restrictor “to see what it was like to run up front for once.”