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TIL A Teen was Sentenced to 10 Years of Church Attendance After a DUI & Manslaughter Conviction

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8ePQG TIL $100 bills made up 80% of all US currency
ADBrw TIL The Grateful Dead once dosed the crew of Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy After Dark' with LSD
69NJZ TIL that The Beach Boys didn't actually use the theremin (the instrument that makes the oooeeeoooo sound) in Good Vibrations, due to it being notoriously difficult to play. Instead they used a simplified version
xVp1o TIL a small town in Minnesota attempted to secede from the United States, as it could not get funding to fix it's water system, and believed that it would be easier to accept foreign aid. It received it's first "aid" in the form of a Ford squad car, and 10 cases of Jeno's Sausage Pizza Mix.
4lD6 TIL that Tul Bahadur Pun was a Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for Valor in combat in WWII, and was denied a visa to live there because he ‘failed to demonstrate strong ties to the UK.’