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TIL you can be too fat to go to jail
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TIL that a freshman girl at Columbine escaped from the cafeteria when the shooting began. Eight years later she was a graduate student at Virginia Tech during the shooting there.
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TIL ska and reggae can be traced back to 1 song: Fats Domino’s “Be My Guest”. Radios in Jamaica picked up most R&B stations in the South of the US and this was a particular favorite.
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TIL a former slave ship captain wrote the song “Amazing Grace.”
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TIL that Julius Fucik wrote the "Entrance of the Gladiators" as a military march for the imperial Czech army, he was inspired by bloody Roman gladiatorial fighting. Today it is know for being the entrance music for clowns at the circus.
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TIL of HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - which would include artificial floating islands on Venus at an altitude that provides better living conditions than the surface of Mars or Titan