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TIL the very first musical guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" -- his 2nd ever show in September 1993 -- was a little-known English band called Radiohead.

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eplOk Today I learned the theme song to Trailer Park Boys is a piano-only version of I Left My Heart in San Francisco
9YGEQ TIL the Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber Haber-Bosch process of artificially generating ammonium nitrate was not only responsible for the entirety of the Axis powers explosive ordinance capability in WW1, but also for our present day capacity to feed a multi-billion population
gdKb TIL the welsh word for microwave is popty ping
LkErv TIL the story of Isaac Woodward. He was an African American WWII veteran who was badly beaten at a bus stop in 1946 for asking the driver to stop at a bathroom, blinding him in both eyes. His case brought the treating of veterans to light and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s
jN7pX TIL Hamley's flagship store in Regent Street, London, is the largest toy shop in the world (7 floors covering 54,000 square feet)