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TIL Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is responsible for singing the falsetto line “Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin” on the Green Jelly song ‘Three Little Pigs’.

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NZXE TIL that trains have conical wheels because there is no differential; when the train turns one wheel will travel a greater distance than the other
a5Nb TIL That there is a program called Rigs-to-Reef that transforms old oil rigs into reefs, and that there are over 3800 oil rigs on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
neNYW TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.
QJ7kk TIL of an 18th century racehorse named Potoooooooo, originally named Potato by his owner. A stable boy was instructed to write the horses' name on a feed bin, which he spelled Potoooooooo (Pot-8-Os). The owner was so amused that he adopted the spelling. Potoooooooo amassed 34 wins over 7 years.
RxD4 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was holding up filming on ‘Django Unchained’ due to his reluctance to use racial epithets at his fellow actors. Samuel L. Jackson finally pulled him aside, explaining 'Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us’