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TIL the Beatles wouldn’t play for segregated audiences and were the first foreign group to do so.

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y46w Today I learned that, according to the Beer Price Index, the cheapest city in the world for beer is Krakow, Poland.
XQKX TIL Richard Feynman made one mistake in his Feynman’s Lectures book and one student got her answer wrong in a exam. To her Feynman wrote “In science, believe in logic, not in authorities; I goofed and you goofed it too for believing me”
Y7VWW TIL that in 1993, the World Wrestling Federation released "WrestleMania: The Album". Simon Cowell (the exec producer) conceived the project after learning that the WWF wrestlers had sold out Wembley Stadium in 27 minutes.
R597Q TIL grizzly bears and polar bears can interbreed. There have been 8 such instances documented, all tracing back to the same female polar bear
wL0vM TIL the famine in China during the 1958-1962 Great Leap Forward was so bad there were several cases of cannibalism ocurring