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TIL the funk band War started out as a backing band for Football Hall of Famer Deacon Jones.

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ZLmR TIL that after being shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, US President William McKinley told the artillery soldiers who were beating on Czolgosz to “Go easy on him boys.”
BrLar TIL Ara Abrahamian, Greco-Roman wrestler for the Swedes in the 2008 Olympics, lost a semifinal due to a controversial ruling. The refs refused to review match video. Ara calmly accepted the bronze medal, then placed it on the mat and walked off. The IOC gave him a lifetime ban from the Olympics.
neWyr TIL that your US mailbox is the property of the US postal service; no one else is allowed to use it. FedEx exists because of a bike courier exception for "extremely urgent" mail. USPS has forced Equifax to pay a $30,000 fine for FedEx use that was not extremely urgent.
kNKW TIL that a live snail was kept in a museum for years before anyone knew it was alive
BgVbD TIL that sci fi franchises popular around the world today like Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Mad Max, and even anime like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Akira are directly inspired by a small French porn comic of the 1970s by the name of Métal Hurlant.