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TIL Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose recorded himself having sex with the drummer Steven Adlers girlfriend and put it on a mix on a song for the bands album. Steven later “freaked out” when he found out.

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JJK4 TIL early telephones had no ringers and no hang-up hooks. Callers would get the attention of those they were calling by yelling loudly (often, “ahoy!”) into the receiver until someone on the other end noticed.
KOB9B TIL of the systematic destruction of the Armenian cemetery at Julfa. In response to charges from Armenia and various international organisations and despite overwhelming evidence of their involvement, the Azerbaijani government insisted that the cemetery and the monuments within had never existed.
OGZK7 TIL that Japanese death row inmates are executed by hanging. Three prison officers simultaneously press buttons to open the trap door so it is not clear which one is responsible.
VME5D TIl that Celeborn, king of Lothlorien, was originally named 'Teleporno'
b6ebp TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 30 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.