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TIL on the day Judy Garland died, there was a tornado in Kansas

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0d96y TiL that in order to make their triple album, "Sandinista!", affordable for their fans, the Clash let go of any royalties made on the first 200,000 copies sold in the UK.
Y7ZXZ TIL when Emperor Ferdinand was told his subjects were starting a revolution, he asked “But are they allowed to do that?” He abdicated later that year.
woEwJ TIL Not to use hand air dryers in public restrooms 🦠
908X TIL that during the Nigerian Civil War, the two sides agreed to a 48-hour cease fire because Pelé was in town to play an exhibition game, and everyone wanted to be free to watch it without having to worry about the war.
waVE TIL in 1962, a man named Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval Officer, cast a single vote that prevented a nuclear attack on the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is credited for preventing a thermonuclear World War 3.