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TIL in Medieval Europe it was common for the wealthy to eat meals with their entire household, including servants.

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ne909 TIL that Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was singing backup vocals on the 1980 Star Wars tie-in Christmas album "Christmas In The Stars." The only reason he got the gig was because his cousin Tony managed the studio where the album was recorded and had hired him as a janitor.
DQDOg TIL that Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band were so poor during the recording of Trout Mask Replica that they often had to resort to stealing to feed themselves, one time even getting arrested for doing so; they were bailed out by Frank Zappa.
kOoZ1 Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power. In April last year, researchers found octopuses — and some of their cuttlefish and squid cousins — regularly edit their RNA. This sets them apart from the rest of the animal world.
xd1w TIL about the Tetris effect, in which people who play Tetris for extended periods of time start seeing falling tetris blocks in their sleep as well as regularly identifying tetromino shapes in their everyday life, such as the layout of boxes on supermarket shelves or patterns on certain buildings.
W79L TIL Hundreds of millions of birds are killed each year colliding with manmade structures