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TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'

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RRZ4 TIL that Stan Lee didn’t use his given name (Stanley Lieber) for his comics, because he was saving it for when he wrote serious literature
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EBW7 TIL Former US Navy Seal hero Chris Kyle claimed in his book the the US Government sent him to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to kill looters, he claims he sat on top of the Superdome and killed 30 people.
Rv84 TIL after having his arms ripped off by a tractor, a teenager called for help using a pencil in his teeth, and then sat in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the new carpet
LQW4P TIL of a folk song called “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”. A Black gospel song first sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned them on the sea Islands by South Carolina. The boat symbolises a way to freedom from the tyrannies of slavery