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TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd the band who had a massive hit with their song 'Sweet Home Alabama' are actually from Jacksonville, Florida

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Y8Kx TIL there is a gypsy tribe in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives, while treating births as occasions of great grief.
p7eG TIL The fastest man made object in history might just be a manhole cover over a nuclear test bunker. Last seen going 41 miles per second, the steel plate was never found.
1A5P TIL it’s only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).
ZpEgG TIL that the famous sculpture "The Thinker" was cast in 1904. I had always figured it was from the Renaissance at earliest, maybe even ancient Rome or Greece.
QNdV6 TIL Walt Disney brought live animals to the studio for more realistic animation of the movie Bambi