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TIL That Dimebag Darrell was invited to join Megadeth but declined because he couldn’t get his brother, Vinnie Paul to join

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nX5r TIL the Canadian ice hockey team were so dominant that they did not participate in the knock-out tournament of the 1930 World Championships. They were put straight into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent. Canada won 6-1 in the final to claim the gold.
pXvZ TIL on Dec 27, 2004, for a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half a million years of sunlight shone on Earth from 50,000 light years away.
W9ro TIL that 12 states allow child support payments via credit card, yielding yet another pathway to rack up frequent flyer miles
v1bbj Today I learned that during the The Bubonic Plague,Jews were accused of poisoning water wells and as a result were burned alive at the stake by Christians.
JNr8 TIL Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina as he felt it would be insensitive to people who have lost their possessions.