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TIL one of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante’s first major influences was Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak.

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VAl0 TIL not only is Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time, she was also among one of the first Britons to surf standing up.
jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”
Reel TIL that two babies were switched at birth, one family was rich and the other poor, the rich couple’s biological baby became a truck driver and the poor couple’s biological baby became a CEO of a company
9wPD6 TIL that Hummingbirds have specialized wings that only attach to their bodies from the shoulder joint, allowing them to fly not only forward but also straight up and down, sideways, backward, and to hover in front of flowers.
E7do TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children who are in the hospital and talks to them in character.