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TIL Three of the greatest reggae artists ever – Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer – met while working at a Chrysler Factory before any of them had even started their musical careers

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gGw4 TIL that in 2017, a dairy company in Maine lost a lawsuit about overtime pay due to the absence of the Oxford comma.
bPeQ TIL Carlos Santana revealed to Rolling Stone that he was contacted by the Archangel Metatron and told how to create his next album ‘Supernatural.’ It went on to win 12 Grammy’s including Album of the Year, went 15 times platinum, charted #1 in ten countries, and sold 30 million copies.
E109X TIL that when the Incas first saw horses brought over by the Spanish in the 1530s they described them as "Large Llamas with Silver Shoes"
PYEwg TIL legendary producer Rick Rubin held an actual funeral complete with casket and grave for the word “Def” after finding out it had been accepted into the standardized dictionary. Amongst those who attended in 1993 included Tom Petty, Flea, and Trent Reznor.
ne0PB TIL The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals), tend to have less economic growth, less democracy, and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer resources.