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TIL That Wessel van Diepen started the band LA Style, famous for the 91' hit "James Brown is Dead", went on to create the band Vengaboys and the hit "We Like to Party"

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BOYW TIL that in 1957, then Vice President Nixon was celebrating the independence of Ghana when he asked a group of men how it felt to be free. They replied, “We wouldn’t know. We’re from Alabama.”
m1GEp TIL that Fiesta, a snack sold by Ferrero (Nutella’s brand) in Italy and targeted to the entire family, contains 8.5% liqueur.
nekEd TIL Pope Clement VII personally approved Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun in 1533, 99 years before Galileo Galilei’s heresy trial for similar ideas.
E40X TIL - Jack Daniel died from blood poisoning after forgetting the combination to his safe, kicking it, and injuring his toe.
e00aJ TIL Nissan's GT Academy winners were banned from the 2013 British GT Championship because they were too fast thanks to playing the Gran Turismo video game