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TIL Shirley Temple’s daughter Lori was the bassist in Grunge originator’s the Melvins.

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W7yMY TIL in Korea, snack sausage sales increased by 40% during winter of 2010 from people using them as styluses on their touched screen phones without taking off their gloves.
QJw4L TIL about the Blair Mountain Revolt, the largest armed uprising in the US post-Civil War. Thousands of workers upset at company town policies and poor conditions in the mines staged a mass strike in West Virginia, leading to the President ordering the army and airforce in. 133 died, over 900 jailed.
VBwLk TIL it is a Class B Felony to wrestle a bear in Alabama. Considered to be Bear Exploitation.
60L7 TIL that during the global hop shortage of 2008, the Samuel Adams Beer Company sold 20,000 pounds of their excess hops to over 200 craft breweries, at cost. This helped prevent the breweries from going out of business.
XE85k TIL about a 6th century Buddha statue found on a Swedish Island in a hoard from the 8-11th century