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TIL there’s a Mariachi band that does covers of metal songs called Metalachi!

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16J8V TIL The largest lake in the solar system isn't on Earth. Its on Saturn's moon, Titan.
M7P7A TIL that in 2007, 4 Blackwater guards Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten, and Paul Slough opened fire and shot grenade launchers at Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square, killing 17 people, including a 9-year-old and an 11-year-old. They were later tried and sentenced
E7wX TIL that the United States of America placed 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Their property was confiscated before they entered the camps. It was never returned. Tax records were destroyed which meant camp attendees could not claim compensation for property loss.
4Wva TIL Jack White of the White Stripes was saving Seven Nation Army’s guitar riff in case he got asked to do a James Bond theme
166ND TIL there was an exponential increase in childhood cancer in Mexico due to the purchase of tons of milk from Ireland, which were contaminated due to the radioactivity caused by the 1986 Chernobyl accident.