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TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say “fucking hell” after making a mistake on the piano. The band thought it was so funny that they decided to keep it in the song.

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XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".
p5A4 TIL that an English composer, Jeremiah Clarke, couldn’t decide if he should commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself. He flipped a coin and after the coin landed on its edge in the mud he went home and shot himself instead.
ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
E1gjx TIL that Oslo city council decided to forbid cars from entering the city by 2019
JYOK4 TIL Marvin from Pulp Fiction (Vincent kills him in the famous car accident scene) is the voice actor of Samurai Jack and appeared in many other animated television series or video games (Futurama, Family Guy, Afro Samurai, Diablo 3, Dota 2 and many others).