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TIL: Twisted Sister did 3,000 club perfomances and sold out the Palladium theater in NYC all without a recording contract or radio airplay. No one in the biz would touch them. TS ended up pressing their own albums and before finally getting a deal with a small UK punk label.

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VM9r4 TIL of Ruswarp. Pronounced Russup, he was a 14 year old border collie who stayed at the side of his fallen master for 11 winter weeks on a Welsh mountainside. He lived just long enough to attend his master's funeral. Now his statue looks across the countryside where he once walked.
gbpA TIL that Russia will spend about $200,000 maintaining Vladimir Lenin’s corpse this year. Maintenance includes bathing the body in chemicals and occasionally replacing parts.
M7rM8 TIL The male orgasm is a 3 stage process involves 3 glands & the testicles. Seminal Fluid is alkaline. Prior to ejaculation 1-2 drops of a clear liquid is secreted by the bulbourethral glands & neutralizes the acidity of the urethra. Then the milky prostate secretion without sperm, then the payload.
Pg5g TIL 12-year-old Steve Jobs called the home of Bill Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard) to request parts for building a frequency counter. Hewlett gave him the parts, then gave him a job building frequency counters.
0wLYp TIL the MOSFET (the transistor) is the single most manufactured item in human history, with 13 sextillion (1.3 × 10²²) created since 1960— equivalent to two transistors for every tonne of matter for the entire planet