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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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oBNdr TIL the man who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, Horace Wells, committed suicide in prison 3 days after throwing sulfuric acid at two prostitutes while under the influence of chloroform.
OGGv6 TIL about the My-lai massacre, where US soldiers killed over 300 unarmed women and children in Vietnam
86WV TIL Malcolm X avoided military service after being declared “mentally disqualified” because he told draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers.”
p8mAb TIL that if you served, and survived, on the USS ARIZONA during the attack on Pearl Harbor, you can choose to be buried at sea with your crew mates. There are only 4 people left are eligible for this type of burial.
WW44 TIL After Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” she was accused of being an Uncle Tom by the NAACP to which she responded that she would “rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one”.