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TIL Deer are omnivorous

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kJ4Q1 TIL that George Martin had planned for the Beatles to record their first album "Please Please Me" as a live album at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, even promoting the idea during an NME interview. The idea was scrapped after Martin visited the club and found it to be unsuitable for recording.
6E9rZ TIL that Peter Weller, the actor most famous for playing Robo Cop earned PhD in Art History, writing a dissertation on the Italian Renaissance in 2014
ealJ TIL The man responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe was imprissoned by the Spanish Inquisition because “only Devil could give a man the power to exhale smoke from his mouth.”
NXPNJ TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.
DQEgP Today I learned that from 1972 to 1994 the Office of Technology Assesment existed and functioned similarly to the FDA until it was defunded.