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TIL After pleading guilty to tax evasion in 1979, musician, Chuck Berry, was sentenced to 4 months of prison followed by 1000 hours of charity concerts. That’s why he was still touring as late as age 84

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xV8N1 TIL that Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch), Ben & Jerry's, Burger King, Trader Joes, 7-11, & American Apparel are no longer based in America.
p8PZ8 TIL a 2003 heatwave killed over 70,000 people across Europe including 14,000 in France alone.
mxdlE TIL that Beethoven overcame deafness by biting a metal rod attached to his piano to hear his work. It's called bone conduction, and can also be used to help divers talk and hear underwater, and is also used by elephants to communicate
W7g1L TIL about Martha Mansfield, a silent film star who died at 24 in 1923 on the set of 'The Warrens of Virginia.' Her Civil War-era costume caught fire after someone threw a used match into the car she was sitting in. The match-thrower has never been identified.
rD8W TIL: Floyd Mayweather is virtually illiterate.