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TIL Rick Marin from the New York Times called the record label Sub-Pop and asked Megan Jasper for a lexicon of Grunge slang. She kept giving him progressively more ridiculous terms as a joke thinking he would call her out on it, but instead he believed every word of it and published them.

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8eaDV TIL President Dwight Eisenhower regularly had a supply of Coors beer flown to Washington DC by the US Air Force, at a time when Coors could not be legally sold east of the Mississippi River, and President Gerald Ford once smuggled some back to DC from Colorado in his luggage.
OoW76 TIL about the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people who refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain during the French and Indian War. Many settled in Louisiana. The French word "Acadien" evolved and was anglicized as the word "Cajun".
1aZjr TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
wLG4o TIL that the driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.
VvO8 TIL that ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has a 5-octave and 5 notes vocal range, which is bigger than that of Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose and Mariah Carey