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TIL the inventor the saxophone almost died several times as a child, including falling into a cast iron frying pan and drinking vitriolozed water.

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MeROB TIL the 1994 film "Clerks" had an extended, but a much darker ending, in which Dante Hicks was murdered by a robber who then proceeded to take the money from the cash register. Miramax reacted negatively and ordered writer-director Kevin Smith to delete that ending completely.
ANmD4 TIL Ancient Egyptians created hundreds of thousands of vessels out of stone, from the predynastic period onward. At the start of the Old Kingdom focus shifted away from stone vessels towards other stone-based displays such as pyramids, statues and sarcophagi.
rRe74 [TIL] Spain had a Fascist government well into the 1970's.
l7KOG TIL In 1997, during the Critérium International race, a horse jumped over a fence to join the peloton, it passed them and left the race just 20 km away from the finish line
XE0LD TIL about the China National Highway 110 traffic jam; a massive traffic jam that slowed down thousands of vehicles for more than 100 km and lasted for more than 10 days. Drivers were able to move their vehicles only 1 km per day and some drivers were stuck in the traffic jam for 5 days.