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TIL that the most recorded musician in history is Carol Kaye, a bass guitarist who recorded with the Beach Boys, Joe Cocker and others and she’s 79 years old and available for music lessons on Skype.

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6EeYJ TIL that Oliver North solicited $10,000,000 from the Sultan of Brunei as a way around US rules on funding Contras in Nicaragua. The money never went to them, but to a Swiss businessman instead because North entered the wrong bank account number.
BAEK TIL Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, died due to kicking a safe that wouldn’t open and later contracting blood poisoning.
vPKyR TIL about Ghost Bikes, bicycles painted all white, are used as memorial markers of where cyclist fatalities occur
epWL4 TIL that Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words
looMV TIL California accounted for nearly half of the U.S. solar electricity generating capacity in 2015