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TIL of Buckethead, a musician who wears a KFC bucket on his head and a mask on his face and can play an electric guitar one-handed, to a degree.

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yQBLe TIL of the 1975 Ebbin brothers coincidental tragedy in Bermuda. Both Erskine and Neville were 17, riding the same moped, and hit by the same taxi carrying the same passenger a year apart. Considering the population and landmass of Bermuda back then, the odds of it happening were not that small.
VM5Rp TIL that in 1862, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. The largest individual payout was $18,000 for 69 slaves, which is equal to $556,024.34 in 2020.
Br7Qx TIL David Bowie's eyes weren't of different colours. He suffered from anisocoria, which means that the iris can’t react to light in the same way as its fellow, so the area appears to be darker. So, what appeared to be different coloured eyes, was just that one pupil was bigger than the other.
R5oW8 TIL about Helsinki's 'underground city' in Finland. It is composed of +5.000 underground bunkers carved into the bedrock. It can house up to 900,000 people in case of a nuclear attack on the capital.
XBO6 TIL President Kennedy had multiple conversations with President Eisenhower asking for advice during the Cuban missile crisis, and there are recordings of those phone calls.