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TIL of a band called Beatallica- a band that mashes up Beatles and Metallica songs

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E19oo TIL 125 years ago New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.
QVeL TIL that on April Fools Day in 1989, billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO, and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed.
4Ok5 TIL None of the Beach Boys actually surfed except for Dennis who died drowning.
8aKxG TIL that Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, a Great Depression-era gangster and notorious bank robber, endeared himself to the public by destroying mortgage papers at the banks he robbed, freeing many from their debts.
8aOr8 TIL of Canned Lions, who are taken from their mothers, sold to petting zoos and then ultimately to hunting events for tourists to shoot. It’s legal in SA.