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TIL After his very first performance, Elvis Presley's manager Jimmy Denny said, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

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d8aQj TIL that Tolkien never once describes the elves as having pointed ears.
YpOLA TIL 'Assload' and 'Buttload' are actual defined units of measure--the former being the maximum load of a donkey (about 8 bushels), the latter a large cask with a volume of 491 liters/108 Imperial gallons.
ADDR7 TIL there is a militant Islamic separatist group in the Philippines that goes by the name MILF
V6Bm TIL: North Korea claims to have sunk the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and even preserved the ship that “sunk it” in a museum. The USS Baltimore was never deployed to Korea and was scrapped in 1972.
1JQV TIL in 2003, Kirk Jones drunkenly swam over the Niagara Falls, earning himself a $2,300 fine and a lifetime ban from Canada.