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TIL that Otis Redding recorded "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" just three days before his death in a plane crash

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EgGow TIL 20,000 pigs once roamed the streets of New York eating trash
M7yjm TIL Pop-Tarts were originally called “Fruit Scones,” but Kellogg’s changed their name to reference the Pop art movement of the time, made famous by artists like Andy Warhol.
gMJbW TIL the Methuselah Tree, named after the Biblical figure who was said to live 969 years, is a nearly 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine near Death Valley believed to be the second-oldest tree on earth.
0wlv1 TIL the founder of the USA’s earliest lesbian bar was deported for obscenity and was eventually murdered at Auschwitz.
b6vR9 TIL the V-2 rockets the Nazis used to shell London in a terror campaign "had no effect on the outcome of the war", and were such a waste of resources that Freeman Dyson described the V-2 program as "almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament."