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TIL There is a fifth symbol on the inner sleeve of Led Zeppelin's fourth album, chosen by Sandy Denny who sang with Robert Plant on the track "The Battle Of Evermore"

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8eXdb TIL couples in India are likely to spend one fifth of their total lifetime earnings on their wedding
QJV69 TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew of Air Force One to change the temperature of the cabin. Eventually, they installed a fake control knob for him to 'control' the temperature himself. The president stopped complaining.
mxKDY TIL: In 2000, Tim Miller founded Texas EquuSearch, a search-and-recovery non-profit which has assisted with hundreds of missing-persons cases and located more than 400 living people and 238 bodies. His own daughter was abducted & murdered in 1984.
X0jbE TIL that in ancient Rome, when a military leader celebrated a triumph, a privileged slave stood behind him in the chariot and repeatedly whispered, “Memento mori” (“Remember you will die”) to keep his ego in check, even at the height of his glory.
DpeD TIL Kurt Vonnegut tried to sue a Tobacco company because the packaging promised to kill him and he was 83 years old and they had not fulfilled this promise yet.