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TIL that Roger Waters believes the song “The Phantom of the Opera” is plagiarized from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes,” but that “life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.”

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La5V TIL the Japanese term for a Shotgun Wedding is “Dekichatta kekkon”, which literally translates to “oops-we-did-it-marriage”
yrEa TIL: A McDonald’s southwest salad has more calories than a Bacon McDouble cheeseburger
yQnRl TIL Millennium '73, a festival at the Houston Astrodome organized by the followers of 15-year-old guru Maharaj Ji, was promoted as "the most significant event in human history which would usher in a thousand years of peace." It featured big-band music and drew between 10,000 and 35,000 attendees.
d8jMQ TIL The Deepest Point in the Ocean Known to Man is the Challenger Deep which is is 10,924 Meters or 10.92 Kilometers. And there is still life deep down under.
jNpwv TIL Thomas Jefferson had observed unseasonably mild temperatures in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1776.