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TIL That Tesla tried to name their 3rd generation vehicle the Model E, so that their model line spelt S E X.

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NXQyb TIL John Lennon openly plagiarized Chuck Berry's song "Can't Catch Me" to write "Come Together." When Paul McCartney called him out on the intellectual theft, Lennon responded, "Yeah, I know! It's good though, isn't it?" "Come Together" became a No. 1 hit and is considered a Beatles classic.
nWK1b TIL the Unabomber's (Ted Kaczynski) cabin was in FBI storage for several years before becoming a museum piece.
VBpjk TIL that Planets don't orbit exactly the sun's center — they orbit a common center of mass in between their and the sun's center called the barycenter. The barycenter of Jupiter and sun actually just outside the sun's surface!
Z87R TIL The “XXX” that you see on the sides of moonshine signifies how many times the batch had been run through the still.
4P9R TIL fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.