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TIL Elvis was born the year the orchestrated piece O Fortuna premiered

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awJ5y TIL in 1958 Inmate Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play San Quentin State Prison. Haggard credits Cash with giving him the inspiration to launch a career after prison that included 38 #1 hits on the country charts
5VarR TIL scientists can store digital data in DNA, fitting the equivalent of millions of gigabytes into just a few grams of biological material.
gyyy TIL that Frank Zappa once got on stage during a Velvet Underground show, atonally played the keyboard, and shouted the names of random vegetables for a minute. Then he walked off stage and the show continued normally
v5jL TIL that federal law in Canada states that a beer pint is 20oz, instead of an American 16oz pint, and the government asks for violators to be reported
vP6NL TIL an 800 sq ft (74 sq m) trailer home in a trailer park in Montauk, New York sold for $3.75 million. This modest mobile-home park, Montauk Shores, once a working-class getaway, is becoming increasingly popular with billionaires and celebrities. Musician Jimmy Buffett recently bid on a trailer.