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TIL the band WAR, the first black band booked on the Sunset Strip, Why Can't We Be Friends is about the absurdity of judging others based on our differences. "I don't judge you by your name, your color, or your money. I judge you by whether or not you're an exemplary person."

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e0W46 TIL 17-year-old Peter Woodcock was Canada's youngest serial killer, After murdering 3 children between 1956 - 1957 he was sent to a Psychiatric Facility, years after he was given permission to leave unsupervised where he killed his last victim, He was classed as "The Killer They Couldn't Cure"
X0O4D TIL of Deli Mike, a Turkish Airlines Airbus A340 notable for her temperamental behavior. Known for “pranking” passengers and crew, she would turn lights on and off and refuse to retract the landing gear seemingly at random. One story went that staff fixed a faulty instrument panel by talking to her.
loxlA TIL that particle physicist John Ellis lost a bet and had to include the word "penguin" in his next scientific paper. After struggling to find a way to include the word, he "smoked some illegal substance" which gave him the inspiration for the now important Penguin Diagrams.
kO165 TIL about the Allais effect, which is an unexplained increase in gravity during solar eclipses
VEaD TIL the Coconut was named by Spanish and Portuguese explorers who thought the three holes made it look like a human face. “Coco” means grinning face. The English made it “coconut” in 1613.