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TIL Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young stole a pickup truck in order to get to Woodstock to play their sets

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WkBp8 TIL between 2006 and 2010 the Motorola cellphone market share went down from 21.1% to 2.4%.
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OGra TIL Joss Whedon wrote a screenplay for the first X-Men movie, but only two lines of it were kept, one of which was “You’re a dick”
KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed
9wpQr TIL that humans have the highest daytime visual acuity of any mammal, and among the highest of any animal (some birds of prey have much better). However, we have relatively poor night vision.