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TIL David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) owns the Fender Stratocaster with the #0001 serial number.

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PRRV TIL the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NYC is so polluted that unidentifiable new forms of microbiological life have arisen in its sludge
gM8Gy TIL American accents are more homogeneous than British accents. There are fewer distinct dialects in the US than in the UK
ZpAya TIL that the female voice in Positive K's hit single, "I Got a Man" was in fact him.
dDel9 TIL there is an island in Japan inhabited by wild rabbits and is known as "Rabbit Island". Originally, the rabbits were bred for laboratory testing, but after the tests ended, they were released and have multiplied significantly.
ZpvxR TIL an Austrian man left $2.4 million to the French village that hid him from the Nazis