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TIL that Gene Simmons of Kiss saw Van Halen at a club in 1976 and decided to produce a demo tape for them. However, when he took the demo tape to Kiss management he was told that "they had no chance of making it" and that they wouldn't take them, so he opted out of further involvement.

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Y7jwZ TIL that Native Americans in the American West were managing and riding horses by the early 1600s, decades earlier than thought. This challenges earlier theories that they acquired horses only after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, when Spanish settlers were expelled from New Mexico.
OG44R TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.
J1bGV TIL that in 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinema. The first film to screen publicly in the country after the ban was lifted was "The Emoji Movie"
N5lN TIL that after FIJI Water ran an ad joking that it “wasn’t bottled in Cleveland,” the Cleveland Water Department proved that Fiji Water contained the highest levels of arsenic and other contaminants when compared to Cleveland tap water and other bottled brands
KY8vE TIL the Gibson guitar that Peter Frampton played on his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive!”, was lost for 32 years after the guitar was put on a cargo plane that crashed. The guitar ended up being owned by a musician on a Caribbean island, before a collector spotted it and contacted Frampton in 2012.