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TIL “Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse”

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BLLy TIL that the first album release from Priority Records was by ‘The California Raisins’ a fictional rhythm and blues group made up of anthropomorphized raisins singing hit songs like 'I Heard It Through The Grape Vine’ in order to sell more raisins. The second was Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
8eyNa TIL that there is a species of Chinese spider called Hotwheels sisyphus
8Z8X TIL that there is a store in Alabama where you can buy items found in unclaimed airport baggages
kJOag TIL nearly the entire 1977-1978 University of Evansville basketball team died in a plane accident. The one team member not on the plane died in a car accident two weeks later.
WkDML TIL that in 1937 Fred Morrison got inspiration to create a plastic flying disc after initially throwing a pie pan from the Frisbie Pie Company. Twenty years later, the disc was named a Frisbee, as a nod to the pie company.