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TIL producer George Young suggested AC/DC add bagpipes to "It's a Long Way to the Top" after learning that singer Bon Scott had been in a pipe band. Scott agreed despite having never played the bagpipes before; he had actually been the pipe band's drummer.

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epxZk TIL of the 172-year old Botafumeiro, a giant incense spreader (AKA a "thurible") that is swung from the ceiling of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain at speeds of about 68 km/h, reaching 21 meters from the ground at the height of its 65-meter arc
ANlVo TIL Dandelion and burdock is a mead drink served in the British Isles since the middle ages. The drink is usually flavoured with sassafras or wintergreen but now typically uses artificial flavours and is served as a carbonated soft drink.
oBOyL TIL that if there was a Rubik's Cube for every single way you could arrange it, they could cover earth's surface 275 times or form a tower 261 light-years tall.
5YJLB TIL that Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, also wrote another book considered one of the worst horror novels of all time. The Lair of the White Worm has been described as "one of the most spectacularly incoherent novels ever to reach print", and H. P. Lovecraft called it "almost infantile".
XgaE TIL in 1978 a US Navy ship was attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Nearly all of the cuts found on the ship contained remnants of sharp, curved claws found on suction cups of some squid tentacles. The claws were much larger than those of any squid that had been discovered at that time.