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TIL songwriter Trevor Rabin wrote the entirety of the Yes song "Owner of a Lonely Heart" while sitting on the toilet.

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ox7E TIL if all the corn and soybean production in the U.S was diverted to corn ethanol and soy biodiesel, it would meet only 12% of gasoline demand and 6% of diesel demand.
16pVX TIL The tallest mountain in our solar system is not on Earth, but rather on Mars. Olympus Mons is approximately 13.6 miles high which is three times the height of Mount Everest (tallest mountain on Earth).
0m4L TIL when three men with machetes came into an African orphanage at night, a man named Omari took a hammer to fight all three at once. He survived after getting hit in the face with a machete, and saved all of the children. His story, first shared on Reddit, helped raise $83,000 for the orphanage.
YpwrA TIL During the 2021 ice storm in Texas an off-duty paramedic's FJ Cruiser was crushed by a semi truck in a pileup on I-35. The paramedic survived the hit, climbed out of his crushed vehicle, and began applying aid to others in the crash.
R7yl1 TIL before the internet, Nintendo had "game counselors" - whom you could call if you were stuck in a game and they would coach you through it.