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TIL that Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero than any of their albums.

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EgMlX TIL about John L Burns, a 70-year-old veteran of the war of 1812 who was caught in the crossfire during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863; after being released from his confederate prison, he promptly arrested the traitorous stragglers and took up his flintlock against the rest.
Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines
8Apb TIL: The original Pinocchio initially ended with the Fox and the Cat hanging Pinocchio
rR8Xd TIL about black MIDIs, a genre of electronic music involving piano songs containing a huge number of notes, typically in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions.