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TIL- 'Straight Outta Compton' never played in Compton because there are no movie theatres there.

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746Z TIL the song “Edelweiss” in “The Sound of Music” was written for the musical, but sounded so much like a classic folk song that after the first performances, native Austrians said they were delighted to “hear that old folk tune again”
rXOe TIL That there was a guy named John Titor who was supposedly a time traveler from the year of 2036. He said that in his timeline in the year of 2015 there will be World War III. Also someone patented his time machine sketches - http://ift.tt/1uoCmzA
NXyO8 TIL, sex in Amsterdams VondelPark is entirely legal, as long as you clean up after.
ADQk4 TIL Bernard Moitessier was about to set a record for the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe when he decided instead to continue on to Tahiti "because he was happy at sea."
yVAVJ TIL erections were believed to be caused by inflation so flatulence causing foods were an impotence cure