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TIL that Randy Bachman (of Bachman Turner Overdrive) wrote the stammering parts in their hit ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ to tease his brother Garry, who had a speech impediment when he was younger.

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8ZGP TIL there are mysterious tunnels in South America, some thousands of feet long, thought to have been dug by extinct, giant sloths.
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