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OxPg TIL that a member of the National Guard was accused of kidnapping and raping a woman. He lost his job, wasn’t allowed to deploy with his team and began suffering health issues. The woman later admitted that she lied and the sex was consensual. She was sentenced to 32 days jail.
PYZPG TIL American blues musician Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil. The story is that he went to the crossroads near a plantation at midnight and met the devil, who took his guitar, tuned it, played a few songs, and handed the guitar back, granting him mastery of the instrument.
LVPr TIL a man created a fake modern art movement called Disumbrationism that won praise from the same critics who dismissed his wife’s realistic still lifes.
R78P1 TIL the common tumbleweed which is used to symbolize the American frontier is an invasive plant species from Russia. The only two states that have not been infested are Alaska and Florida.
oAZK TIL Canada is part of the European Space Agency