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TIL that Ice-T has been in a heavy metal band for nearly 30 years.

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0dey5 TIL after tigers escaped from a zoo in Georgia and killed a man, advice was issued on what to do if you meet a tiger, including: don’t approach it, don’t run away, and don’t urinate
69GMm TIL when Australia first joined Usenet in 1983, data was stored on tape and physically sent via air mail to the University of Sydney for dissemination. This was cheaper than an international data link then.
rNORM TIL when a university's underwater archeology team ran out of funding for researching Captain Morgan's shipwreck, the rum maker of the same name funded thier research
LQN80 TIL dancing is prohibited and punishable by law in Germany during religious holidays, like Easter
9YAJB TIL that Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, William Franklin (1730 - 1813), was a staunch Loyalist during the American Revolution and even organized British military units to fight in the war. After the war, he and Benjamin Franklin never reconciled.