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TIL Bob Dylan’s guitar from the controversial 1965 concert where he “went electric” was missing for almost 50 years. After it was found and authenticated, it sold at auction in 2013 for a record-setting $965,000.

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YpgkZ TIL that Siamese cats get their color points due to a temperature sensitive gene. The colder the body part the darker the fur will become in that area.
kOYN7 TIL that 99.9% percent of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant, a widely popular berry in Europe. They were outlawed for almost a century because they spread a fungus that killed white pine trees.
mxQDE TIL ancient Greek author Lucian of Samosata wrote a short novel in the 100s which included a trip to the Moon, a 200-mile-long whale with fish people living inside it, and a river of wine filled with fish and bears.
eg1E TIL that Muhammad Ali was invited to North Korea in 1995 with a collection of other athletes. Though he didn’t speak much during the visit, at one function, as officials claimed they could take out the US or Japan whenever they wanted to, Ali declared loudly “no wonder we hate these motherfuckers.”
ANDaw TIL that the predecessor to the modern SD card was a storage format called MultiMediaCard, or MMC. Many SD card readers can read some MMC cards without issue. A very popular variant is eMMC, which is an embedded low-cost solid-state storage option for mobile phones and laptops.