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TIL Jada Pinkett Smith has a metal band

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QJaML TIL on the Friday night the day after Martin Luther King's asasination Boston would be nearly alone among America’s major cities in remaining quiet and calm. Thanks in large part to James Brown refusing to cancel his concert that night at the Boston Garden.
wLg98 TIL there is a city called North Pole, Alaska. The city is known for having year round Christmas decorations.
Eg5NX TIL that 4.25 a.m. on 13th July 1944 a Junkers JU88 aircraft landed at RAF Woodbridge in England. The hapless German aircrew assumed they were near Berlin. The JU88 had a new radar system that could detect Lancaster bombers up to 100 miles away. Subsequent alteration of the bombers saved many lives.
dDZxE TIL that some species of jumping spiders display twitching behaviours consistent with REM-like sleep, suggesting that they likely sleep and dream.
N7rE6 TIL that 90% of "dead" cell phone batteries returned to the manufacturer are repaired and resold.