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TIL jazz pianist Ryo Fukui taught himself piano when he was 22 and released his first album just 6 years later

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M5Ma TIL of the ADE 651, a fake bomb detector consisting a swivelling antenna mounted via a hinge to a plastic handgrip, requiring no battery, and supposedly charged by the user’s static electricity. It sold for $60,000 until its creator was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud.
a9Ly TIL that US businesses and individuals so frequently mistake New Mexico as a foreign country or a part of Mexico, that New Mexico Magazine has a regular column documenting such incidents.
QOWM TIL Sylvester Stallone spent nine days in hospital after Lundgren hit him for real while filming Rocky IV. Ouch.
vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
XQE TIL that the highest scoring Soccer game was 149-0 In which, in protest, Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne started to score on themselves in protest of a few bad calls the referee made.