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TIL that five months before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, George Harrison became the first Beatle to step foot in America when he visited his older sister who was living in Southern Illinois.

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8a9GP TIL Anti Video Game activist Jack Thompson once said that if someone made a game about shooting up E3 than he would donate 10,000$ to charity. He refused to donate once the game actually got made
W1rA TIL that 11% of USA highway bridges are considered structurally deficient.
gMYA4 TIL that when Michael Jackson wasn't doing playback, he sounded identical to the studio!
OoYEL TIL Orcas, and other marine mammals, are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives.
mxPBP TIL In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists without specialist knowledge.