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TIL Def Jam Records founder Rick Rubin was in a punk band called The Pricks that asked friends to heckle during a gig in order to start a brawl leading to the band being kicked off stage & the show being shut down by a “cop” who was really Rubin’s father, in an effort to create buzz around the band

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b6D0j TIL of the eccentric Lord Longford who attempted to get parole for serial killer Myra Hindley, and who visited strip clubs in the 1970’s to compile a report on them. Longford nonetheless did acts of kindness, such as visiting a man who was dying of AIDS and had been abandoned by his family.
b6yj TIL that every year engineering students hang a VW bug from a bridge in Vancouver
wL4gW TIL that Europe has a native bison population! European bison were only hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 1900s and were eventually reintroduced in the 1950s. Mostly they live in Eastern Europe and the largest population can be found in the Białowieża Forest.
nXAd TIL That the world of Ooo, the setting of Adventure Time, is a post apocalyptic Earth that came to be after a great “mushroom” war. Hence why so many random, destroyed scraps of technology can be found around the land, and most creatures have odd mutations, with Fin being the last human.
OgDY TIL Emperor Napoleon III of France in an ostentatious display of wealth had a set of plates made from aluminum that was only used at state banquets by only the most important guests. Less important guests had to settle using those of gold.