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TIL that the first custom ringtone ever made was of Van Halen's "Jump"

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MeYXW TIL Keir Gilchrist, the actor who played the lead role in Atypical, is also the lead singer of grindcore band Whelm and death metal band Phalanx.
Jm54 TIL It is mandatory for every team to bolt a rectangular plank of wood to the bottom of their Formula 1 car during races.
Oo4b7 TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".
0XpL TIL in 1982,a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin was beaten to death by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nit because they were out of work due to competition from Japanese auto-makers. In the end, they were sentenced to three years probation and a $3000 fine.
Y7DKA TIL if Jazz was invented in New Orleans, Ground Zero was Congo Square, a gathering spot for enslaved Africans enjoying their mandated day off a week as early as 1803 to drum, dance, sing and trade, leading eventually to Mardi Gras Indian traditions, the Second line, jazz, and rhythm and blues.