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TIL Rolls-Royce only use bull hides for upholstery since female cows are prone to stretch marks during pregnancy

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MbbB TIL Torture whistleblower John Kiriakou has been audited by the IRS every year for the last 7 years.
xA01 TIL Brendan Small, co-creator and voice actor of Metalocalypse, performs the vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, and (most) bass guitar for all the studio recordings for the Dethklok music heard in the show, and is frontman for live Dethklok concerts.
nW9lb TIL that a football player lied to his team about being in graduate school. The Baltimore Ravens thought that John Urschel was taking classes at MIT part time. The team did not know that he was a full-time PhD math student. Urschel studied from the end of Sunday games until practice on Tuesday.
epreE TIL Bradbury, CA has a law making it illegal to be "in a state of drunkenness or intoxication to the annoyance of any other person" in private houses.
8a46X TIL Intel once had an option to allow customers to "upgrade" their CPU using an activation code