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TIL the guitar solos finishing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd were added to give lead singer Ronnie Van Zant a chance to rest while playing several sets per night.

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6eJ8 TIL there exists a sword, a jewel, and a mirror that are all over 1,000 years old and extremely sacred to Japan. They are so important that their locations are theorized but unconfirmed and their last sighting was in 1993 during Emperor Akihito’s enthronement but were also covered in packages.
neDmY TIL the USPS mistook a Las Vegas replica for the real Statue of Liberty when creating the Lady Liberty "forever" stamp in 2010, resulting in a $3.5m payout to the replica's sculptor for violating his copyright.
a8gby TIL that in the 1890s, the U.S. government created the Alaska Reindeer Service, in an attempt to persuade Alaskan natives to become reindeer herders. Reindeer were imported from Siberia, and Sami herders were brought from Norway to teach the Alaskan natives.
78Emp TIL that the first Sci-Fi movie ever created was released in 1895. Created by the Lumière brothers, “La Charcuterie mécanique” (The Mechanical Butcher) features a mechanical box instantaneously turning a whole pig into sausage, chops, and ribs.
jNGOp TIL about Minik, one of several Greenland Inuits who were once part of a living exhibit at the American Natural History Museum. After Minik's father died of TB, his skeleton was put on display in the museum