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TIL that Oxford Is older than the Aztec Empire.
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TIL Jonny Greenwood pretended to play keyboards for months when he joined Radiohead. He was told "I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture"
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TIL when Microsoft started manufacturing the Xbox 360, 68% of them were defective right out of the line. The main processor of the console had an 84% defect rate out of the line.
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TIL the performer at the Paris Olympics faced harsh online criticism for his "blue scrotum" act.He explained that he wrote a song called "Nude" and said that the first Olympic athletes in Greece were depicted naked, highlighting the origins of the Games.
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TIL that both Mama Cass (from the Mamas & the Papas) and Keith Moon (from The Who) died in the same apartment owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.
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TIL On 3 October 2010 the last payment was made of 69.9 million euro. This is considered to be the last payment by Germany on all known debts resulting from both world wars.