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TIL Weird Al Yankovic said he knew he’d made it as a famous musician when he went to a party, saw Paul McCartney and before he could introduce himself to the former Beatle, McCartney recognized him and said, “Hey! It’s Weird Al!”

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wLm9J TIL that GIMP, the free open source image manipulation software, is mainly developed by only 6 people working at night after their day job.
9Yp7G TIL Peter Capaldi chose a buttoned-to-the-Top white shirt as his costume to be reachable - so even poor kids could pretend to be the doctor.
pYe6A TIL: Banyan merchant is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, their religious and cultural dietary choices, and the manner in which they conduct trade
GY7L1 TIL a Corned Beef Sandwich was smuggled onto Apollo 16, resulting a review of the incident by Congress.
nWWEW TIL about the Biological Resource Center in Arizona, that was raided by the FBI in 2014, where agents discovered bodies (which had been donated to "science") "cut up with chainsaws," "a woman's head sewn on a man's torso," and more, being sold for profit. The owner got probation. Agents got therapy.