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TIL bartenders in Utah must prepare drinks behind a curtain called a “Zion Curtain” to combat excessive drinking

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rRZD4 TIL of Toystory the Bull. Known for his "testicular fortitude," he produced over 2.4 million units of semen in his lifetime and (through artificial insemination) fathered roughly 500,000 offspring.
rNO4M TIL about the Avignon Papacy, a time between 1309-1376 when 7 French Popes moved the Papal Enclave from the Vatican to France.
loMOr TIL Jimi Hendrix’s contract for Woodstock stipulated that no act could play after him. The scheduled performance times went so far off that he didn’t take the stage until 9am Monday morning. Most people had already left, and only about 10,000 people actually saw him play.
kOmog TIL about the ghostly radio station, commonly known as "the Buzzer", situated in Russia that no one claims to run. It’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for the last three-and-a-half decades. Anyone can listen to it by tuning a radio to 4625 kHz.
x68V0 TIL Karl Marx sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on his fight against slavery and 1864 re-election.