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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was bullied by Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi in school , and he was only invited into the band after band mate Geezer Butler saw Ozzy advertising in a music shop that he had a P.A.

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loDm1 TIL in 1929, researchers at Princeton University turned a living cat into a telephone.
9Y5P7 TIL of the sinking of the PS General Slocum, the second worst disaster in terms of lives lost in NYC, in which many people drowned because the life jackets had been filled with iron in order to meet minimum weight requirements of the time.
v8oD TIL That a Japanese soldier was stranded on a island for 30 years, not knowing that the second world war had ended for 30 years. His commander came to the island to personally dismiss him in 1974.
KOe46 TIL of a band called Tout-à-Coup Jazz. Tout-à-Coup's guitarist Thomas Sankara became the President of Burkina Faso in 1983 before being killed in a military coup organised by the singer of Tout-à-Coup.
VMwk0 TIL of an infamous bear in 1915 that killed and ate seven people over the period of a few days in a Japanese village, and that in the aftermath of the attacks (and hunting the bear) the village was completely abandoned.