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TIL A band called The Warlocks were set to play a benefit concert in San Francisco in December 1965, but the problem was that there was already a band called The Warlocks...so they changed their name to The Grateful Dead.

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MaLK TIL that the Oregon legislature ochestrated a bipartisan Rickroll in their statehouse by inserting lyric snippets into their floor speeches and stitching them together, and released the video on YouTube on April Fools Day.
JYZjj Today I learned that Bounce by System of a Down is not about an actual pogo stick that Serge takes on dates
ZA7G TIL there is an island in Italy that is so haunted no one is allowed to go there. It is called Poveglia, a dump site for plague and black death victims & corpses, and later the site of an insane asylum.
woAE8 TIL the “Smiley Face Theory,” which alleges that from 1990–2010, 45 young men found dead in bodies of water across the Midwest did not accidentally drown but were rather victims of a serial killer. The only known connection is grafiti depicting a “smiley face” found near at least a dozen bodies.
9YpVQ TIL that Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) have the potential to grow more than 60 million times their birth size, arguably the most extreme size growth of any vertebrate animal.