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TIL that Dave Grohl does not read Music but perceives it through Ear and Intuition. He also perceives the Guitar as a Drum Set.

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0dbej TIL that from 2021-2024, there were only two commercial aircraft incidents involving fatalities in the United States: the 2022 Mutiny Bay DHC-3 Otter crash (10 fatalities) and 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash (9 fatalities).
a8Yw9 TIL Adult skeletons are replaced every 10 years
e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
nWlb TIL that in 1860 when Julia Pastrana, a woman who was very hairy and had ape like facial features, died, her husband mummified her and their dead baby’s remains to further exploit them at “freak shows.” Julia’s corpse was buried just this year and the baby’s corpse was eaten by mice in 1976.
9ZDX TIL that Killer Whales aren’t whales but a species of dolphin. The confusion stems from the Spanish, who called them “whale killers”.