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TIL Brian Wilson was deaf in his right ear, and thus mixed the Beach Boys' albums in mono because that was the only way he could hear them.

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VOx8 TIL the red dot printed on the lip of an Aerosol can, indicts the direction the end of the dip tube inside is facing. Thus helping you to get the most out of your can.
QNBjL TIL in 2020, Emerson Elementary School in California was charged $250 by a licensing firm because the PTA showed a DVD of "The Lion King" during a Parents' Night Out event, and the school did not have a public performance license to show the film outside the home. Disney later apologized to the PTA.
nWxjo TIL: The screenwriters of the 1957 film "Bridge on the River Kwai" were on the Hollywood blacklist, so the non-english speaking author of the book the film was based on was credited as the screenwriter instead. The film won an academy award for screenwriting.
Br0r TIL upon its discovery by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, the element polonium was named after Poland (in latin Polonia) to shed light on the countries lack of independence. It may be the first element named to highlight a political controversy.
nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.