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TIL Frank Zappa came up with a way to distribute music digitally in the 80's

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WkYn4 TIL after the festival Burning Man, a cleaning crew combs through the grounds to clean up “MOOP” or trash as small as single hairs from wigs in order to pass a federal inspection.
pYP54 TIL The "July Effect" is more of an urban legend than rooted in fact. There is not an increase in mortality in US hospitals in July when interns, residents, and fellows settle into their roles.
780BP TIL that Tommy Lee Jones hated working with Jim Carrey during the movie Batman Forever (1995). He told Carrey, “I hate you. I really don’t like you,” and when Carrey asked why, he said he cannot sanction Jim Carrey's buffoonery.
woPWM TIL that Larry Bird was nicknamed "The hick from French Lick" in reference to his hometown of French Lick, Indiana.
vbxx TIL there was a punishment called “Derby’s dose”, in which “[A] runaway [slave] would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into their open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for hours.”