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TIL while in prison, mucisian MF Grimm paid $100,000 for 1 day bail to record an entire album. While in prison he studied law and reduced his life sentence to 3 years.

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bKjp TIL that in 1830, a group of Australian convicts hijacked a ship off the coast of Tasmania and sailed it to isolationist Japan. At a port on Shikoku Island, a samurai disguised as a fisherman recalled walking the docks, when they noted “an unbearable stench in the vicinity of the ship.”
QJdLM TIL one of the causes of American War of Independence was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which prohibited non-Native settlement west of the Appalachians
0wJR5 TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.
p08e TIL A cat’s meow is custom tailored for its owner and is rarely used for communication with other cats.
WkEr8 TIL Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus, started a universal library in Seville, Spain. He really did try to collect everything, and catalogued books, manuscripts, pamphlets and tavern posters, from weighty tomes to throwaway ephemera.