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TIL that the great Stevie Ray Vaughan was lead guitarist for David Bowie’s best selling album Let’s Dance

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epEx5 TIL that Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition
Y5lG TIL Around 85% people breathe through one nostrils at a time which changes every few hours. It affects the body’s glucose and oxygen levels and the activity of the brain hemisphere. Also explains why one nose is more stuffed up when having a cold.
1nvV TIL each pawn in chess used to have its own name, after one of several commoners’ occupations.
4XbRa TIL for nearly a century, Jimmy Red corn was used by bootleggers to make moonshine whiskey. The variety nearly went extinct in the early 2000s, but two remaining ears of corn were used to revive it.
1a9Zd TIL in 2008 German actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally cut his own throat on stage in a “suicide scene” when he was given a real knife by mistake.