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TIL that influential blues musician Lead Belly was released early from prison after killing a man due to the fact that his music impressed the Louisiana governor so much.

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9YRyX TIL Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury threw a party where he had dwarves walk around with plates full of cocaine strapped to the tops of their heads, as an offering to his guests.
WkYwN TIL During the “Red Scare” in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime.
X0nJ6 TIL in 1993 Donald Wyman amputated his left leg below the knee with a pocket knife after it got stuck under a large tree during a logging accident where he bled profusely for an hour & feared he'd die. However, he was even able to keep his leg after firefighters retrieved it & surgeons reattached it
4XMvw TIL Dennis Rodman was cut from his highschool Football & Basketball team. Worked as a janitor before dropping out of college. Was recruited by Southeastern Oklahoma State then went on to win 3 straight titles with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
VmpB TIL in Iran although homosexuality is illegal sex changes are not: The government will pay half the money for the operation to a person who wants to change their sex seeing it as ‘a cure for homosexuality’, as a result Iran performs the second most sex changes in the world- second only to Thailand