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TIL Nirvana's Kurt Cobain made out with his bandmates on live TV "just to spite homophobes."

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YmWv TIL The ending of 2005 romantic comedy “Fever Pitch” had to be rewritten, with additional filming, when the Red Sox defeated the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series. The writers had originally assumed the Red Sox would lose.
VMnb8 TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world
b91xa TIL the uneven terrain of Nagasaki served as a natural buffer in the bombing, even though the "Fat Man" bomb had a 23 kiloton explosion yield, which is more than the explosion yield of "Little Boy" that is 13 kilotons, the bombing did not cause as much damage as the bombing in Hiroshima.
d8mA8 TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is founded upon a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. Today's medical recommendation is "drink when you're thirsty, unless you're outside on a hot day or you're elderly"
KYLjJ TIL that Raytheon (now RTX), military industry giant, started as a company producing appliances. From microwave ovens to missile systems.