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TIL Paul McCartney played celery on a Beach Boys song

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OG0EL TIL Duplex stainless steel can undergo 475°C embrittlement that causes a loss of plasticity when it is heated between 250°C and 550°C.
bxe0 TIL Bruce Banner’s name was changed to David for The Incredible Hulk television series because “Bruce sounded gay.”
0dolM TIL that "Neurorealism" is a fallacy in science where people ascribe too much faith in psychological phenomenon merely because it is backed up by brain imaging methods.
QNgDp TIL that during WWII workers at the Henry Ford aircraft factory Willow Run built a staggering 8,685 B-24 bombers in three years. No one had ever manufactured airplanes on such a scale before. At its peak in 1944, it produced a B-24 every hour.
nDOo TIL there is a man wandering through the Amazon rainforest thought to be the last member of his tribe. No one knows his language or what tribe he belonged to.