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TIL Gwen Stefani's older brother Eric was an animator on The Simpsons and drew the band into the episode "Homerpalooza" (1996)

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AD8Wn TIL that a coin toss decided that Portland, OR should be named after its namesake in Maine. The other proposition was Boston.
446R TIL- To prevent mistreatment, dogs in the military are always higher ranks than their handlers
B8Br TIL a scientist in London has found a drug that acts as a synthetic alcohol and even has a “sober-up” pill that will quickly reverse the effects
kJxAg TIL The Yellowstone National Park is on top of a caldera, which is a volcano that explodes so powerfully and immediately that everything around falls into the hole created, thus you are vacationing inside the top of volcano, but it looks flat and not like a "normal" shield volcano.
Ob84 TIL David Bowie considered himself a “closet heterosexual,” having declared himself gay in 1972 then bisexual in 1976, but ultimately admitted that those declarations were a mistake.