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TIL The Deftones formed in 1988 and released their first album in 1995.

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5YN9B TIL Charles Darwin's captain of the HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, invented the first scientific weather forecasts and weather forecasting service. While often correct and immensely popular, the inaccuracy of his predictions and subsequent criticisms contributed to his depression and eventual suicide.
R5n56 TIL George Jennings invented the public toilet. It premiered at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and cost one penny to use the toilet. Since then, "To spend a penny" became a euphemism for going to the toilet in the United Kingdom
YjYP TIL the cast of Super Mario Brothers was constantly drunk while filming just to get through their scenes.
0dOLv TIL that many Italian recipes with eggs, like Bismarck pizza, took the name from the German Chancellor because during a public speech he said it would take "blood and iron" to effect change but the Italian crowd mistranslated his words as "blood and eggs". Bismarck was known for his fondness of eggs
XmXQ TIL Augustin Mouchot, a French math teacher, was a 19th-century inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine. It converted solar energy into mechanical steam power. In 1878 he showcased his solar-powered concentrator at the Exposition Universelle in Paris & took home the gold medal from the fair.