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TIL that Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums.

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LkalP TIL that Jill Dando, presenter for the BBC "unsolved crime" series Crimewatch, was murdered during her time as host for the show. Crimewatch reconstructed her murder and a suspect was convicted. However, the conviction was overturned, he was acquitted upon retrial, and the case remains unsolved.
VBE9p TIL that potting soil can spontaneously combust!
O5We TIL that squatters on a street in West London declared independence from the UK in 1977.
gMyN7 TIL that Spain was pro-Hitler and provided volunteer forces to help Hitler fend off the USSR
DK0V TIL The myth that human eat 8 spiders a year while we sleep was started to demonstrate how fake “facts” spread over the internet.