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TIL to protest the outrageous overcharging of Australian fans, NIN’s Trent Reznor stated about his own music “Steal it. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’.”

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x6ew1 TIL about the ‘My Way Killings’, in which 12 people in the Philippines were killed due arguments around karaoke performances of the Frank Sinatra song. People in the Philippines now avoid the song in karaoke bars.
kOn81 TIL that during the 18th century rich people used to pay people to be "hermits" in their gardens
PYmQE TIL that in WWII the US was going to use Bat Bombs on Japan to burn down houses and forests.
XeBR TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widow’s home.
6EAXX TIL that archers would poop in their designated place in the battlefield and then stick the arrows in the poop to spread infection through not fatal wounds