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JYb04 TIL That Broadway Street was called the Wickquasgeck trail in the Native American era.
woGZ8 TIL the US military has a system call Rapid Dragon that allows it to roll off and fire cruise missiles from the back of cargo planes.
LQY19 TIL that in his 2010 autobiography, Keith Richards admitted that Otis Redding’s rendition of “Satisfaction” was closer to Richards’ original conception for the song than The Rolling Stones’ version. Keith said: “Otis got it right. Our version was a demo for [Otis’s version.]”
wLrP8 TIL Butter is yellow because of its natural Vitamin A (source: 2015, HowItsMade)
ARrd TIL a Minnesota woman was ordered to pay $222,000 in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs.