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TIL Kerry King from Slayer played the guitar solos on "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" and "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" by The Beastie Boys

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9nEQ TIL that a convent of nuns in the Middle Ages began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to force the nuns to stop their meowing.
oBMAA TIL During WW1, prohibitionists in the US successfully used anti-German sentiment to rally against alcohol, since many brewers were German or of German ancestry.
DQQAe TIL Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme.
e0JLD TIL that during the 1970s the Communist government of North Korea kidnapped foreign women to provide potential wifes for the American defectors, to prevent them from marrying ethnically Korean women and having mixed children
jNdNa TIL the term "plastic surgery" was coined in 1839, 70 years before plastic was even invented. It comes from the Greek word "plastikē" which means "sculpting" and has nothing to do with plastic.