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TIL Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums

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VMbd0 TIL that the Olympic Rings logo represents Earth's five continents and the colors of the rings, with the white background, were chosen because those colors could make every country's flag as each existed in 1915.
kJvXg TIL: In 1982, Rodney Mullen became the first person to use a skateboard to perform an ollie on flat ground. An ollie is simply where the skateboard and the skateboarder leap into the air simultaneously.
vPPVK TIL Lieutenant Commander Richard (Dick) Halsey Best (WW2 dive bomber) sank two Japanese aircraft carriers in one day
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