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TIL Kirk Hammett from Metallica played guitar in Aerials by System of a Down

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bMja TIL all colors of Froot Loops cereal are the same flavor: “froot”
LGDd TIL a Canadian inventor tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.
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jNBBE TIL that in the War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay lost over 90% of it's entire male population. Paraguayan women ended up outnumbering men with ratios of 4:1 or even 20:1 in some regions. As a result, the local catholic church authorized polygamy to rebuild the population