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TIL Grateful Dead bassist played a prank on Jerry Garcia when he hired Barney to make a cameo mid-concert - his doing so was unknown to the other band members!!

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GYJB7 TIL about the Demon Ukobach, said to be the inventor of fireworks and the art of frying foods.
kJkr7 TIL in the early 1970s Boeing proposed an oil carrier aircraft with a 500 ft (150 m) wingspan, powered by 12 engines from the 747 design. A fleet of aircraft would work around the clock to fly crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to the Pacific coast. The Alaska Pipeline was built instead.
7rwVX TIL the "r" in "Mrs" comes from the title of Mistress, as it was the counterpart of the title Master, which held the original abbreviation of "Mr".
1andr TIL of Seafarer Abandonment. Sailors and the ship they're on can be completely abandoned by their employers in a foreign port, with no wages, way home, fuel or even food or water. Sometimes they can even be detained by the country they're abandoned in.
LkvnQ TIL: There's a $200 million abandoned village of 732 Disney-like castles in Turkey