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TIL Paul McCartney played celery on a Beach Boys song

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Lko6p TIL that Hitler planned to make Oxford his European 'base' after he invaded England and as such ordered Oxford not to be bombed.
XEPYD TIL about the G.I Joe Fallacy, named so by two women professors at Yale, means that knowing is not half the battle. But knowing that the G.I Joe Fallacy is a fallacy is less than half the battle.
K7kJ TIL the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s was an extravagant nonstop party-house that attracted movie stars, politicians, and socialites alike to partake in endless decadence and hedonism, from champagne and caviar to sexual favors and recreational drugs
Rjj TIL that the clasp at the end of a tape measure is supposed to move. It slides to compensate for the thickness of itself during measurements.
kJVPB TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.