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TIL : Air guitar itself had a seminal moment at the Woodstock music festival in 1969 when singer Joe Cocker mimicked the playing of the keyboard and guitar during his performance of "With a Little Help From My Friends".

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6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
4Xk1a TIL That James Cameron only works on projects starting with "T" or "A"
rRLke TIL the greater rhea, an ostrich-like bird native to South America, is now represented by a small but growing wild population in northern Germany after some escaped from a game farm in 2000. Hunting was recently introduced to control the population.
R1jj TIL that the reason the snooze on a clock is 9 minutes is because in the 1950s, they had to make snooze gears fit onto the existing clock mechanics. Unable to use 10, they chose 9 minutes.
M7JGm TIL In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, deep within its dense rainforests, a remarkable discovery was made in 2012 that captured the attention of scientists and nature enthusiasts alike. A new species of monkey, known as the Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis)