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TIL Tenacious D got the idea for their song “Tribute” by listening to “One” by Metallica and thinking that it’s the greatest song in the world

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WkKn9 TIL that the US Army field tested the use of camels in the American Southwest before the Civil War
ZQop TIL that while trying to present about the disease that would later bare his name, Alzheimer was rushed off stage because the conference attendees were excited to hear the next speaker present about compulsive masturbation.
V8Ok TIL that Tiki Torches were invented by Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a native Texan, not the Polynesians.
l7O11 TIL: one scientific theory states that the passage of time is due to the universe (space) expanding. As the universe expands, it pulls time with it because space and time are linked as one. But this implies that if expansion stopped and the universe started contracting that time would reverse
P1Qve TIL that the judge from My Cousin Vinny was Herman Munster, Fred Gwynne.