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TIL Paul McCartney wrote the melody to the song "Yesterday" before the lyrics. He used placeholder lyrics for the song, titled "Scrambled Eggs" instead: "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs".

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nWkYB TIL only 46 votes out of the 5,722,440 votes cast in the 1868 US Presidential Election were for someone other than Ulysses S. Grant or Horatio Seymour
x6a71 TIL of the 1937 School Explosion in New London, Texas. 294 died, mostly students in Grades 5 thru 11. Although the richest independent school district in the U.S, to save money the school board put a leaky tap on an oil company's production residue gas line, leading to the explosion from a spark.
1oZP TIL Competitive eater Patrick Bertoletti currently holds the world record for eating 21 lbs of grits… in 10 minutes
R57o8 TIL theres a frog called 'niputidea' short for ni puta idea which translates to english as no fucking clue
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