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TIL The Beach Boys stole the song “Never Learn Not To Love” from Charles Manson. Manson later attempted to murder them, but the police were never called because the Beach Boys were afraid the truth would ruin their image.

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GYQP1 TIL the Speed of Light was approximated by Römer back in 1676 using Io’s eclipse of Jupiter. The eclipse occurred 10 minutes after the expectation, allowing the speed of light to be estimated at 220,000km/s.
mxAvO TIL about Shavarsh Karapetyan was a world-record holder in finswimming. In 1976, a bus with 90 people crashed into a lake, he rescued over 20 people by repeatedly diving, was hospitalized for 3 weeks, suffered irreversible lung damage, and set another world record at the next USSR championship.
KOQNE By the 2030s, computer data storage may surpass 1 yottabyte (1024), the largest number with an official metric prefix.
OopvL TIL that 70% of the worlds macadamia nut can be traced back to a single Australian tree.
d8REB TIL that the most commonly used sentence in the Harry Potter book series was: “Nothing happened.”; for The Hunger Games series it was: “My name is Katniss Everdeen.”, and for the Twilight series it was: “I sighed.”