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TIL that Pete Buck of R.E.M. had been playing guitar only a year before joining the band at 23 years old.

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xLy0 TIL that the company that makes the Etch a Sketch was on the verge of bankruptcy when it agreed to let its drawing toy be featured in Toy Story 2. Although the scene featuring an Etch a Sketch was only 12 seconds long, it resulted in a 20 percent sales bump that helped to save the company.
8KVb TIL That in North Korean Propaganda, Kim Jong Il’s first ever time bowling was played across 13 games of bowling simultaneously and he scored 300 points on each lane. The bowling centre, Maxis Bowling Kangso shut down all of it’s lanes forever in his honour.
R7VnQ TIL that "mad honey" is cultivated in Turkey - honey made from nectar from rhododendron flowers. Small doses cause hallucinations, large doses bring seizures and death. It is used as medicine by Turkish villagers, who drink it in milk with breakfast and believe it increases sexual potency
5VmlB TIL that globally, we produce over 9,900,000 tons of butter a year, and India produces 3,797,550 of that, making it the largest butter producer in the world (via Atlas Big). The United States, which comes in second place, makes less than half that amount each year, with Pakistan coming in third.
1aaRV TIL that under the Articles of Confederation, Canada was entitled to become a state and join the US. Any other former British colony would need the approval of at least nine states to become a state itself. (See Article XI)