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TIL that U2’s song Where the Streets Have No Name was notoriously difficult to record due to its complex time signature changes & layered structure. It was nicknamed “the science project song” by producer Daniel Lanois, who resorted to teaching the band the arrangement with a blackboard & pointer

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1bBV TIL that before 1600, a game of chess could be won by capturing all of the opponent’s pieces, leaving a bare king; a style of play known as “annihilation”. In Medieval times, players considered it nobler to win by checkmate, so annihilation became a half win for a while, until it was abandoned.
690O8 TIL The American Iron Front owes its roots to a paramilitary organization formed in the 1930s in Germany to oppose the Nazis that was named simply the Iron Front (Eiserne Front).
J1Mpm TIL that Ireland has a population of Wallabies, they were introduced in the 1950s but the population took off in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo had a surplus of the marsupials
9wdKm TIL in 2001 an artist covered a house in Powell, Wyoming with 10,000 pounds of government issued pepper Jack cheese. The town was so excited about the Cheese House they even threw a parade and crowned a Cheese King and Queen.
obJA TIL Scientology leader David Miscavige’s mother-in-law was found dead with three gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide.