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TIL The Beatles were originally supposed to voice the vultures in The Jungle Book

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Q9Le TIL that Yahoo was nearly able to acquire Facebook in 2006 for $1bn, but due to a faltering stock price, Yahoo lowered its offer to $850m, allowing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to walk away from the deal.
ymp8 TIL when Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn’t have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played “Happy Birthday” on a trumpet.
jx8n TIL The Golden Temple of India feeds over 100,000 people a day no matter who they are, where they come from, or their race.
R58x7 TIL that Button, Cremini, and Portobello Mushrooms are all the same variety of mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, just at different ages.
ANaGB TIL that before Nirvana was formed, Kurt Cobain led a band called "Fecal Matter"