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TIL the title for Guns N'Roses classic 1987 album “Appetite For Destruction” comes from its original cover art, a surrealist painting by Robert Williams which “depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger.” The cover was replaced after stores refused to stock it.

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8eAEG TIL There is a maze of tunnels under Las Vegas and people live in them
ANQBn TIL: The first recorded Olympic champion was a cook named Coroebus, who won the stadion race in the ancient Olympics in 776 BC. The stadion race was a sprint of about 200 meters and was the only event in the first Olympic Games.
m5mp TIL that the Buccaneers were originally “legal” pirates of the French and English paid to attack Spanish ships in the caribbean. Their name, buccaneer, stemming from the native ‘buccan’, a wooden rack for smoking meats. They were hired pirates who made and ate Jerkey.
BrEwr TIL of The Great Chinese Famine where 30 million+ people died due to Mao's policies and natural disasters. With cannibalism and madness affecting the population, food aid from the Red Cross was declined. To this day it is referred to in China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters.
Zdx4 TIL that in order to woo women drivers better and tailor a vehicle to their specific needs, Cadillac had their male executives drive around with paper clips on their fingertips, in order to simulate and cater to the “distinctly feminine experience of operating a vehicle with long fingernails.”