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Today I learned that Jimi Hendrix played guitar in the band of Little Richard, who was upset that Hendrix upstaged him.

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oRyjo TIL of Hugo Gernsback. Among other things, The Hugo Awards were named after him. He founded Amazing Stories, the first sci-fi magazine, in 1926. He even received his own Hugo Award in 1960.
7rGoO TIL Switzerland had enough nuclear fallout shelters to preserve it's entire population
wLRP7 TIL that Formosa Province in Argentina is the antipode with Taiwan, which was historically also known as Formosa. European sailors speaking different languages gave the same name to two areas at exact opposite points of the Earth.
wmxJ TIL you are about 3x more likely to be killed by lightning than by terrorism.
16G0r TIL of Operation Pig Bristle. An Australian military operation conducted in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the goal of which was to obtain paint brushes in response to a national shortage of brushes used in home construction.