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TIL that Richard Nixon was a very successful poker player, using his winnings to contribute 20% of the cost of his first Congressional campaign

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WkXoA TIL that Nirvana sabotaged their own show in 1992 in Buenos Aires due to the crowd disrespecting an all-girl band that opened for them. Nirvana continued to play only the 10 seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit, playing toy drums, butchering solos, and yelling hey for most of Come as you Are.
Qnlk TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
YpjBG TIL Master of Puppets was the first metal album to be preserved by the US Library of Congress
EER7 TIL that One in Four Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Erectile Dysfunction is a Young Man
epyrn TIL Lead singer of popular Lambada song was brutally murdered in 2017