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TIL: A Electrician built a motorcycle out of a car to escape the Sahara desert.

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RPr9 TIL American Hip Hop Duo Eric B. & Rakim sued Def Jam Island Music Group in 2003 because they were not paid in full for their work on their debut album, Paid in Full.
YbQB TIL Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, has been the only president to date who affirmed (in law) rather than swore to the oath of office
86LK TIL the song ‘Louie Louie’ was investigated by the FBI for 31 months on suspicion that the lyrics were secretly obscene, but no lyrics were ever printed and it was dropped when they were deemed unintelligible. The drummer later admitted to yelling 'Fuck!’ at 0:54 after dropping his drumsticks.
ZoJQ TIL in 2010 a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for using webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home. After the suit was brought, the district revealed it had secretly snapped more than 66,000 images.
j6e9j TIL that the Russian space program (from the 1960s to the 1980s) was the first to not only land a probe on another planet (Venus) but also photograph it