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TIL The album art for 21’st Century Breakdown by Green Day was inspired by a graffiti mural that was inspired by a picture of two random people making out at a McDonald’s employee party in Eskilstuna Sweden

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x6jZw TIL an animated Robocop series aired in 1988 for 12 episodes. 13 episodes were ordered but only 12 were made because the budget for the 13th funded the intended pilot for an X-Men animated series called "Pryde of the X-Men" which the 1992 Konami X-Men arcade is based on.
b6WWQ TIL that Hershey’s Ice Cream is unrelated to Hershey’s (the candy company), even though both companies were founded in the same year in Lancaster County, PA
ZpPQa TIL Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane who unknowingly partially disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
16OB7 TIL John D. Rockefeller's dad, William Rockefeller was a snake oil salesman and accused of assault .
YpGZG TIL Leonardo da Vinci observed a relationship between the areas of tree trunks and branches that has been validated by current studies of many species, and has multiple theories explaining the relationship