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TIL Dave Grohl was invited to join “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” in 1994, but declined due to the upcoming debut album of Foo Fighters.

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6EJOw TIL many people in ancient Europe believed in the existence of vegetable lambs that grew as plants in Asia and had blood and flesh like an animal. The legend comes from the cotton plant, which was unknown in Europe
jNwrX TIL distracted driving from Pokemon Go is estimated to have led to 145,000 car accidents, injuring 30,000, killing 256 & causing $2B+ in damages
9Y4Wm TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.
PYVmE TIL that 2 donkeys that have been together for 10 years at a zoo in Poland were separated after a local politician and parents complained about them mating in front of children. Experts weighted in and a petition to rejoin them got 7,000 signatures so the zoo put them back together.
woGeM TIL that the earliest known published collection of liturgical music in Hebrew was published exactly 400 years ago, in 1623, by Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the court of Mantua, Italy, who was so well-thought of that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge required of Jews