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TIL Rollie-pollies are crustaceans that live their entire lives on land

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XLwr TIL that Coolio regretted giving Weird Al a hard time about “Amish Paradise,” and feels “that was one of the dumbest things I did in my career.”
GE05 TIL the term “mosh” (as in “most pit”) originated with singer H.R. of Bad Brains. He would frequently incite the audience to “mash” into each other, and his thick Jamaican accent rendered the word as “mosh”.
6EmmQ TIL how Cumbia (south american music) back in the 1800 hundreds got accordions washed up by the sea, from a german shipwreck.
wopx1 TIL that in 1671, a man named François Vatel was in charge of a 2000-person banquet to be held in the honor of Louis XIV. Vatel became distraught after a delivery of seafood was late, driving him to take his own life by running himself through his sword.
WVrN TIL- That Ben and Jerry’s used to have a policy that no employee could make more than five times what the lowest paid worker was paid.