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78RbL TIL that one of The Rolling Stones' early hits, "I Wanna Be Your Man," was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles.
4X8V5 TIL when novelist Shirley Jackson, author of the short story “The Lottery”, was checked into the hospital in 1948 to deliver her 3rd child, the clerk asked her to state her occupation. “Writer”, she replied. The clerk responded, “I’ll just put down housewife.”
OoMl7 TIL of radiosynthesis, a process like photosynthesis that uses the pigment melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth. Radiotrophic fungi were discovered in 1991 in and around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
G0pG TIL The Poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was in fact about a little girl, Mary Sawyer, from Boston whose little lamb followed her to school one day in 1816.
l7MN7 TIL Japan has several "Nose Tombs" which contain tens of thousands of severed noses from Korea.