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TIL Kurt Cobain accidentally spat on Elton John’s piano at the 1992 VMA’s thinking it belonged to Axl Rose

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6wRY TIL that in the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned “fruit cocktail” must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears, grapes, cherries, peaches, and pineapples to be marketed as fruit cocktail.
R5mBl TIL Warner Bros. spent $30m developing the Tim Burton-directed Superman: Lives (with Nicolas Cage as the lead) before canceling it in 1998. Burton cited issues with Jon Peters "I basically wasted a year. A year is a long time to be working with somebody that you don't really want to be working with"
9wPp7 TIL the Inuit town of Quaqtaq in far northern Quebec is named for tapeworms, after an old legend in which a native hunter expelled live parasites. The town has a post office, a small airport, and a hotel.
8emEP TIL Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning both use their middle names as their given names as per family tradition.
XEK68 TIL the Bombardier Beetle can create a chemical reaction in it's body that allows it to shoot boiling acid at it's enemies