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TIL There are only two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing an acoustic guitar

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e0QX6 TIL alcohol based hand sanitizers can cause severe intoxication in small children when absorbed through the skin.
oBmbo TIL about the "Flynn Effect" which shows the average IQ is rising steadily each generation. IQ tests are continually made harder to keep the average at 100. Today's children that take tests from past decades are averaging significantly higher than 100.
R7X8l TIL of the incident when Soviet politician Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe to protest a pro-human rights speech of a Philippine senator at the UN
nejK7 TIL Ben Franklin wrote a letter listing the benefits of having sex with older women. Including it takes longer for the vagina to age and that "they are so grateful"!
Oodn1 TIL In 1978, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was convicted of heroin possession in Canada where he was ordered by the judge to play a benefit concert at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind