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TIL Skrillex has won nine Grammy Awards, the most of any electronic dance music act.

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low8r TIL that the magyars that raided the european continent were the Dark Age's version of the Zodiac Killer. They believed that whoever they killed in battle, he would serve them in the afterlife. An example is related to the legend of the Horn of Lehel.
66Vl TIL The inventor of laughing gas became addicted to chloroform and one day, delirious, rushed out into the street and threw sulfuric acid on people. When his mind cleared and he realized what he had done, he killed himself, blotting out the pain with chloroform.
kxjB TIL Roald Dahl was a decorated WWII pilot, a post-war MI6 agent in the US, co-inventor of an implantable valve to relieve pressure in sufferers of hydrocephalus, and married a movie star.
dDvr9 TIL The song Edelweiss is not actually an Austrian folk song and was written for "The Sound of Music"
X0PXj TIL about George Catlin, a 19th century US lawyer who left his profession and traveled the West, living with over 50 indigenous tribes, learning about their cultures, and painting beautiful portraits of them.