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TIL that in 2008 and at the age of 45, Flea, bass player of the multiplatinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, enrolled as a freshman at University of Southern California's music program to learn the academic side of music.

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LZPd TIL immediately after Pearl Harbor the US treasury issued specialized ‘over print’ bank notes for the Hawaiian market. In the case of an invasion all the seized cash would be rendered worthless.
8a7V8 TIL the largest empire ever to exist based on percentage of world population was the Achaemenid Empire originating from Iran, which contained 44% of the global population in 480BC
KVba TIL that Victorian maid Kate Webster chopped up her mistresses, boiled her and then assumed her identity. Meanwhile, the skull of her boss wasn’t found with the other body parts and was discovered in the garden of English naturalist David Attenborough 130 years later.
nWKAB TIL Pope Julius II was infamous for getting away with reckless actions without any backlash. He once entered the city of Perugia unarmed, and the local ruler, who had an army, surrendered the city to him and fled. Shocked at the outcome, N.Machiavelli suggested he should have just killed the Pope
mxYrx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.