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TIL the band Fugazi recorded almost all of their shows on cassette and are in the process of making them all available online.

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LGkP TIL George S. Patton held a speech, so popular that it became known as “The Speech” where he justified his “chicken-shit drilling” by claiming “A man must be alert at all times. If not some German son-of-a-bitch will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit.”
QJP5X TIL: A single almond requires a gallon (3.8 liters) of water to produce. California produces 80% of the planet's almonds using more water than Los Angeles & San Francisco combined, and generating $11 billion (2014) to the CA economy.
WkR1Y TIL - 1816 was “the year without summer”
DQ79r TIL about a horse named Muhamed who could mentally extract cube roots, read, and was killed after being drafted into WWI
R5vnQ TIL the casting coach and fake taxi porn was once used to bring young women to porn using those same tricks which I thought was fake. Now it is just dark. I never thought it was real.