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TIL Henry Rollins has a 1tb harddrive full of diverse music that he brings everywhere to turn kids onto new types of music

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5VKlk TIL Croagh Patrick, a mountain in Co. Mayo is one of Ireland’s most significant pilgrimage sites, where over 100,000 people climb the mountain annually, particularly on Reek Sunday, the last Sunday in July. The Archbishop of Tuam leads the climb each year.
1aG57 TIL pieces of Skylab were scattered around a part of Western Australia after its reentry into Earth. As a joke, the local government then fined NASA $400 for littering. It went unpaid for 30 years until a Californian DJ raised funds to pay the fine.
pY5eA TIL an estimated 400,000 children were fathered by occupying forces in Germany during World War II.
yQdEp TIL John Wojtowicz robbed a bank to pay for his partner’s gender reassignment surgery. He was caught and sent to prison but while behind bars, they made a movie about him with Al Pacino playing him. John used the royalties earned from the movie to pay for his partner’s surgery.
Br66k TIL, a "holocaust" was a sacrificial religious ceremony practiced in ancient Judaism, wherein an animal was sacrificed to god, being entirely consumed by fire. The word is from a Greek translation of the Old Testament.