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TIL pianist Ian Stewart Co-founded The Rolling Stones, was removed from the band in '63, but still played for them for over two decades, and was their road manager.

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epmGD TIL the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco flushed decorative algae into the Mediterranean Sea, creating an invasive patch of algae that has now spread over 190km of coast.
BreRb TIL: In Soviet labor camps, prisoners would ingest a condom attached to a length of rubber tubing, fill it up with raw alcohol then smuggle themselves back into the camp. Once there, they would be suspended upside down by the other prisoners and used as a human keg.
4XQMw TIL that taxidermists use beetles to clean bones for skeletal displays.
v1Va4 TIL of Alexandra David-Néel, an explorer who snuck into Tibet in the 1920s to learn about Buddhism when it was closed to outsiders. She lived until 101 and her writings influenced Jack Kerouac amongst others.
WkyZd TIL that medieval moats served not only the purpose of being a physical barrier, but when water-filled were also able to prevent enemies from tunneling and undermining a wall, by saturating the ground making tunneling very difficult.