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TIL The group that gave rise to The Beatles was The Quarry Men, a band that John Lennon had formed with his schoolmates in 1956.

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Oo8jL TIL that a British soldier whose ship was sunk by a U-boat survived for 70 days at sea. After being rescued, he was sent back to England from the Bahamas on a cargo ship. It was hit by 2 torpedoes from a U-Boat as they were approaching the UK. There were no survivors.
e05Qn TIL the term "Playboy" was initially popularized by the life of Harry Kendall Thaw, a millionaire sociopath and mentally ill railroad heir who spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior (including murder), and gratification of sexual appetites.
Z0lR TIL New Zealand was undiscovered and COMPLETELY DEVOID of human beings no more than 800 years ago.
oXOr TIL on September 1, 1755 during a religious holiday, one of the most powerful earthquakes in history destroyed nearly every church in Lisbon leaving the red light district virtually undamaged.
KeRa TIL: In 1993 the US Supreme Court ruled animal sacrifice as part of religious practice is protected under the first amendment.