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TIL that "guitar wizard" Jimi Hendrix thought Terry Kath of the band Chicago was a better guitarist than he was after seeing them perform at Whisky A Go Go in 1968.

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WkEwY TIL of the Fisher Protocol, an idea where nuclear launch code would be implanted in a volunteer. If the President really want to launch a nuclear strike, he had to kill the volunteer.
4keYX TIL that LaMarcus Thompson, the father of the American roller coaster, invented the first coasters on Coney Island because he thought the world was too sinful and needed more moral entertainment
PY8Gn TIL before 9/11 there were only 16 people on the no-fly list. As of 2013 there are over 47,000 people now on the no-fly list.
gKEb TIL the USA space budget exceeds the rest of the world’s combined
G0k7 TIL that a recent study found that women remember penises as being larger than they really were/are.