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TIL that Christopher Lee released two heavy metal albums in 2010 and 2013 which tell the story of Charlemagne, the First Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

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dD6yj TIL a month prior to his 11th birthday, Peter Fonda accidentally shot himself in the abdomen and nearly died. Years later while taking LSD with John Lennon and George Harrison, he mentioned the incident, saying, "I know what it's like to be dead." This inspired The Beatles' song "She Said She Said"
nAAB TIL of Kenneth Robinson who found a loophole that allowed him to buy an abandoned $330k house for $16. His story enraged neighbors for the 7 months he lived there until BoA claimed ownership.
oBVXR TIL Many Medieval texts contain graphical commentary such as drawings of heroic knights fighting giant snails. Many have lost their cultural context and historians can only speculate as to their original meaning.
Z85wG Today I Learned that the diagonal of a 4D Cube is equal to 2 edge lengths of itself.
4X00w TIL that in 1831 the "Anti-Masonic Party" was the first party in the history of the USA to hold a nomination conference for the presidential elections. The delegates elected a Freemason.