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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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OoXRe TIL McDonalds tried to create bubblegum flavored broccoli to appeal to kids. The kids hated it and it was taken off the menu
OoMmX TIL an Australian fast-food chain called Chicken Treat let a chicken named Betty write out it's tweets by pecking at a keyboard. Apparently, if Betty did manage to hit 5 keys in a row to form a word, she'd get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's first chicken to tweet in English.
QNbG6 TIL that amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named his son Agamemnon in honour of an Ancient Greek funerary mask he discovered in 1876, which he erroneously claimed belonged to the legendary king of the same name.
VMndG TIL Nikola Tesla used Sanskrit words in his descriptions of natural phenomena. After meeting Swami Vivekananda, Tesla began using the words 'Akasha', 'Prana', and the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence and construction of matter.
bMeQ TIL that Frank Welker, the voice behind Scooby-Doo, Fred, Megatron, and more, has over 1,000 credits in voice acting, and, if the revenue from his credits was totaled, would be the highest-grossing actor of all time.