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TIL the Tom petty song You Don't Know How It Feels originally was a B-side single about Petty being in love with multiple girls on different drugs and being a dealer. Warner Bros refused because it was too controversial

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E187o TIL that the Department of Energy will warn future humans 10,000 years from now about the presence of buried nuclear waste in New Mexico with 32 25-foot granite pillars. The pillars will be engraved with pictograms and warnings in many languages, along with buried magnets and radar reflectors.
Wka8A TIL During the Vietnam War, an Army aviator scored an air-to-air kill by shooting down a MiG from his fixed-wing Mohawk observer aircraft. The kill was kept secret since U.S. military doctrine stated that the Air Force has sole control of air superiority.
XEO1P TIL that the eagle featured on U.S. currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the U.S. Mint. He died in 1836 but, like many animals whose admirers just can't let go, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.
9Pkp TIL there is a species of deer with fangs.
x69Wg TIL that in 2018, a family walking along the beach in Australia discovered the oldest message in a bottle, which had been thrown into the sea back in 1886.