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TIL Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Chicago White Sox

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eown TIL DJ Carl Cox played the Millennium (1999 to 2000) on New Year’s Eve twice, by performing in Sydney, Australia and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.
loVBA TIL Scott Joplin, who brought syncopation to modern music through ragtime, doesn't own any of his music. He received 10 free albums, and one cent per album sold.
lowaB TIL that the B-52's song "Rock Lobster" inspired John Lennon to start making music again in 1980, because it reminded him of his wife Yoko's work.
Me17K TIL that when Coca Cola launched Dasani bottled water in the UK they lazily used the same campaign they’d used in the USA, and soon found out that BOTTLED SPUNK doesn’t mean the same thing in the UK that it does in America.
womrM TIL that according to a review in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, by the age of 20 37% of people show spinal disc degeneration on imaging. That figure increases to 80% by age 50 and 96% for age 80+.