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TIL that professional wrestler "Kane" is the current Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee

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l76Ea TIL Bob Barker (RIP!) and Adam Sandler did a sequel skit to Happy Gilmore in 2015 for the Night of Too Many Stars
xVxng TIL For the movie Godzilla (1998), Rage Against The Machine was commissioned to contribute to the original soundtrack. The resulting track, "No Shelter", explicitly trashes the movie and Hollywood in general
jOJj TIL the Mona Lisa used to have eyebrows, but they were rubbed off through years of rough cleaning.
vPBDR TIL that the song “Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
p8kDe TIL People of Iceland supposedly were reluctant to embrace Christianity for some time largely over the issue of giving up horse meat after Pope Gregory III banned horse meat consumption in 732 AD, as it was a major part of many pagan rites and sacrifice in Northern Europe.