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TIL: Rolling Stone readers voted Nirvana at one of the worst bands of the 1990’s. Right along with Creed, Limp Bizkit and Hanson.

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BXlL TIL in 2002, a 86 year old man was held 45min at the airport due to a strange metal item in his pocket that TSA couldn’t understand - it was a Medal of Honor.
pnAb TIL Chicago, nicknamed the Windy City, is named after the boastful loquacity of its politicians rather than the gusts that shoot between buildings
9YbjM TIL of "Unsinkable Sam," a ship cat that served during WWII for both the German and British navies, and allegedly survived three separate shipwrecks
4Abw TIL Henry III received a polar bear from King Haakon of Norway in 1252.
oR5nK TIL about Famadihana, a funerary tradition of Madagascar. People bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap them in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names so they will always be remembered. The practice is thought to be connected to pneumonic plague transmission