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TIL A man claimed to have travelled to an alternate dimension where The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of songs that nobody had ever heard before

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Oorw6 TIL about Basil "The Owl" Banghart, a criminal who escaped federal custody by pretending to be a federal agent who was overpowered by his prisoner, Basil Banghart.
69y6m TIL that in Major League Baseball the ball is pitched so fast that the eye cannot track it. However, the brain is able to calculate its trajectory via specialized cells, making it possible for the batter to hit it.
rNN80 TIL in 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created a very early precursor to fiber-optic communications, the Photophone, a device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light.
R71j7 TIL that the Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath; and 73 five-day weeks, with the days Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, and Setting Orange. One of the holidays is Multiversal Underwear Day (August 10/Bureaucracy 3)
ZR6Y TIL when he was a child, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s parents bribed him into doing commercials with the promise that he would be able to buy anything he wanted with his earnings. His purchase of choice was his very own ‘Street Fighter 2’ arcade machine.