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TIL of the Gold Coast Meter Maids. Bikini-clad women on Australia's Gold Coast who would top off parking meters of parked cars in order to avoid a parking fine.

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awOoL TIL 3.6. million Japanese celebrate Christmas the “traditional Western way” by eating KFC. The demand is so high that getting the KFC special Christmas dinner requires ordering it weeks in advance.
NXOxb TIL That Dolly Parton declined a proposal for a statue in her honor at the Tennessee state capitol.
k9BW TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev informally agreed that the US and USSR would assist each other in the event of an alien invasion
koO4 TIL that there is a feature length anime movie based on the music of Daft Punk. It contains no dialogue or sound effects and was called “the best animated movie made in 2003.”
xV87g TIL The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz. It can be heard in guitar solos on the song Purple Haze