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TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.

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YpkX7 TIL, in the early 1990s Willie Nelson had nearly all of his property confiscated and sold by the IRS, for payment of back taxes and fines. His famous guitar, named Trigger, was only saved from sale because his daughter smuggled it out of his Texas home and took it to Hawaii.
9wLB TIL only 6 people attended Thomas Paine’s funeral, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. because of his ridicule of Christianity.
kOl4e TIL that an underground beer pipeline had been built in 2017 for the Wacken Open Air (WOA) hard rock festival, in northern Germany. The pipeline was 7 km long.
KYe6R TIL that just a little over one-third of Americans floss every day
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