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TIL Keith Moon and John Entwistle once payed a hooker $100 to give Pete Townshend gonorrhea

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p8KmQ TIL the coffee bean is actually just the pit of a bright red fruit called a coffee cherry
XOaD TIL Warner Bros studios didn’t like the idea of Jack Nicholson’s character dying in Mars Attacks, so Tim Burton gave Nicholson two different characters and killed both of them.
PYW1Z TIL Actor Paul Marcarelli – the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy – told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.
Rvlj TIL Theodore Roosevelt became blind in one eye from an injury suffered during a boxing match, while he was still in office
RkO7 TIL that there is a hidden spy room at an AT&T building in downtown San Francisco that splits all incoming communications traffic, copying this information to the NSA. This room has been operational since at least 2003 and has been publicly known to exist since 2006.