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TIL the Easter Island heads also have bodies.

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yVBna TIL in 1966 a relatively unknown American musician joined legendary guitarist Eric Clapton onstage and performed "Killing Floor," a song Clapton himself deemed too difficult to perform live. This musician was Jimi Hendrix and this event became subsequently known as "The day Hendrix killed God."
mWaE TIL that the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another is called the “Cheerios Effect”
4knQN TIL There is a Condition Called Alien Hand Syndrome that Gives Your Hand a "mind of its own"
BgBRD TIL that Clark Gable served as the inspiration behind the name of Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent (Along with another actor, Kent Taylor)
P1ZYG TIL in Red Heat (1988), a Larry Fishburne is credited in the opening titles. This is Laurence Fishburne who opted to use his full first name for his role as Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It in 1994