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TIL that the song "Bron-Y Aur Stomp" by Led Zeppelin was about Plant walking in the woods with his dog Strider.

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n51P TIL it takes 1 gallon of water to produce 1 single almond, and drought-ridden California produces 80% of the world’s almonds.
7rGjO TIL during the Great Depression, a businessman convinced struggling families from a small town in Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares. The town is now filled with "secret Coke millionaires"
Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
M6rV TIL the FDA prohibits products from being packed in containers deceptively larger than what they contain. (Potato chips are exempt because the extra air protects them from being crushed.)
KO0jw TIL that even after he became a famous writer and military officer, Winston Churchill was constantly overshadowed by his friend Winston Churchill