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TIL Toronto has a Garlic Vestival

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ENrx TIL that American pop-punk band Blink-182 had scheduled their 2016 album ‘California’ to be released on July 1st- the 182nd day of the year. Unfortunately for them, however, it was a leap year.
KOvVw TIL there's an extinct breed of dog that was bred to run on a wheel in order to turn meat on a cooking spit in kitchens.
LkaLV TIL Jerry Orbach, who played Lennie Briscoe on the original Law & Order and voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, was diagnosed with cancer less than 2 years into Law & Order. Despite being diagnosed more than a decade before his death, his disease was not publicly known until weeks before death.
neKoY TIL Other than the original indigenous peoples of the valley, Las Vegas was originally settled by mormons.
xVpxg TIL When Michael Sembello tried out for Stevie Wonder, Motown bands didn't have more than one white player. His publicist told Stevie he didn't realise he'd hired a white guy. Stevie asked him his sign which he misunderstood and said Italian. Stevie: "He’s Italian. He’s not White. He’s in the band!"