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TIL that Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten appeared as a defendant against one of Captain Beefheart’s drummers on an episode of “Judge Judy”.

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Gra1 TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: “Good thing I was too stupid to know this” on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were “beyond the realm of possibility”.
wby6 TIL In 1996, A 3 year old boy fell into a zoo exhibit with 6 gorillas at an Illinois zoo. One of the gorillas picked up the child and carried him to the zookeepers gate where rescuers waited.
rRrXx TIL that perhaps the biggest reason Europeans had such an easy time settling the Americas was that they carried diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and measles. These were novel to the natives and eventually reduced their populations by as much as 90%, making conquest easier for the Europeans.
6Ed0Q TIL anybody travelling on the International Space Station needs to have both metric and imperial tools with them. This is because the American portion has been built in 'imperial' and the rest in metric.
OW9a TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.