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TIL that Dave Grohl played drums on all of Tenacious D’s studio albums

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kJ8X4 TIL: The first helicopter used by the US in combat was during WWII, originally meant to ferry parts from ships to shore, they quickly realized how useful they were and used them for medevac purposes.
JYdL8 TIL in 1994, radio shock jock Howard Stern talked a suicidal caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New York. He was live on air conversing and making jokes with him until he was able to be restrained and sent to a hospital.
kOBnE TIL Typhoid Mary refused to wash her hands when preparing meals because she insisted on not having typhoid, even though almost all families she cooked for contracted the disease.
Z877Q TIL elephants evolved to keep their testicles inside their body because predators kept biting them off.
1POP TIL that extinction was only accepted as a fact in late 18th century after Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, disproved the old theory that it was impossible for species to go extinct because God wouldn’t wipe out a species he spent time creating for his Divine Plan.