› added 5 years ago

416

TIL guitarist Brian Setzer bought the entire inventory of guitar amp tubes from a company that was going out of business in the 80s, which gives him a unique guitar tone that is impossible to exactly replicate.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

YpEnx TIL the constitution of Alabama is the longest and most amended constitution still operative anywhere in the world.
kvDE TIL There is an old soviet scientific research hut buried 20 ft. under snow in one of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica. If you can make it in the hut there is a visitors book you can sign.
yoee TIL the first person of African-American descent to become Governor of a US State was a Louisiana Republican. His Mother was a former slave and his Father was his Mother’s former master.
Nw01 TIL in Japan it is illegal to dance after midnight. Nightclubs are routinely raided by the police, and undercover agents go in and check if people are dancing.
5YAOQ TIL that there are still 74 countries where being gay is illegal and 13 countries where homosexuality is punishable by death