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TIL Primus is the only band with its own genre tag on iTunes/Winamp.

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x6gxw TIL that actor Kent Rogers was only 17 when he did significant voice work for Warner Bros and Universal, not only being the original voice of Beaky Buzzard but also voicing Woody Woodpecker for a period of time
Egxa0 TIL the Las Vegas Strip, or what people commonly picture as Las Vegas, resides in Paradise, NV – a town immediately south of Las Vegas, NV
r76M TIL there’s a line of 70 foot long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from San Francisco to New York City. They’re from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal gov’t in 1924 with 50’ tall towers with rotating gas-powered lights to aid lost pilots.
GALr7 TIL on the island of Papua New Guinea, there are a number of species of green lizards that have green bones, green hearts, green tongues, and green blood.
ANVo4 TIL that in 2013, Kurt Braunohler, a comedian hired a skywriter to write "HOW DO I LAND?" in the sky above Los Angeles. He created a Kickstarter to fund the project and asked people what jokes to write on the sky, everyone on the site picked the phrase.