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TIL Duff McKagan, former bassist of Guns N’ Roses, claimed that Duff Beer on The Simpsons was named after him. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, called the claim “absurd”.

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b66X7 TIL of Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots basketball team in the Philippines. Owned by a food and beverage corporation, they have previously been known as Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs, Coney Island Ice Cream Stars, and the Corned Beef Cowboys, among others.
p88x4 TIL that last year in 2016, the first female South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office after leaked information gave evidence Park was being controlled by a shamanistic cult
QN8v9 TIL until 2016, the bylaws of German Gardens in Yaphank, N.Y. (formerly the German American Bund's Camp Siegfried) restricted homeownership to people "of German extraction"
8a5L TIL three times as many left-handed people have schizophrenia, bipolar disease or autism.
OokV4 TIL of Hans Oster, a Nazi general and one of the highest ranking officers who despised Hitler and help save Jews from getting arrested. He was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed in April 1945, one month before the war was over