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TIL the Ramones took their band name from the pseudonym Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels, Paul Ramon.

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mxXvO TIL Penn & Teller helped design a video game in which the player must drive a bus from Tucson to Vegas in real-time; 8 hours of continuous play.
9wWYG TIL in 1989 the Super Bowl XXIII halftime show was headlined by an Elvis impersonator named Elvis Presto, and not a single actual Elvis song was performed.
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154
J1lVm TIL there is a "Bōzu (Shaved-Head) Bridge" in Japan, named after a legend that says anyone crossing it would find their hair mysteriously shaved off. This was believed to be the work of a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog known in folktales for its mischievous pranks and love of fooling people.
D15vY TIL the only 2 patients to be cured of HIV were also undergoing cancer treatment at the same time; meaning they became cancer free AND HIV negative at the same time