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TIL Dean Martin was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon in 1982. Martin told reporters he had carried a .38 in his boot for years after several incidents involving strangers coming up to him at restaurants that Martin had considered "life threatening."

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d86Md TIL That other countries don't know about Australia's obsession for the 1973 Ike and Tina Turner song Nutbush City Limits it's so popular that there is a national dance that every student is forced to learn at school
Bekr TIL In the late 19th century Italian immigrants where referred to as a sub-human race and it was not uncommon for Italians to be hanged by mobs in southern states
6eOQ TIL that there is no such thing as a ‘triangle player’ in an orchestra. The guy playing the triangle is called a percussionist, and must master at least 35 different instruments.
YlQd TIL that humans’ closest relative, Bonobos, have a peaceful female-run society where sex is used to resolve conflict. They “make love, not war.”
NKEJ TIL in 1898 Andrew Carnegie offered President McKinley $20 million to free the Philippines instead of annexation. The US paid Spain $20 million to annex the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American war, sparking the Philippine-American war that cost at least 200,000 Filipino civilian lives.