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TIL in the late 60’s when checking into hotels, Paul and Linda McCartney would use the aliases Mr and Mrs. Ramone to avoid Beatlemania and the press. When Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) read about this, he called his band “The Ramones”, and it became one of the most legendary punk bands of all time

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wL06 TIL Bats hang upside down because the weight of the bat pulls on tendons that hold the feet closed.
DQYPP TIL that bumper car smell is actually ozone that is produced by the electrical discharges.
6EM07 TIL almost all life on earth was destroyed around 2.4 billion years ago in the Oxygen Catastrophe (aka Great Oxidation Event). Photosynthesizing microorganisms pumped massive amounts of oxygen into the previously oxygen-poor atmosphere, making it oxygen rich. Most species perished, new ones arose.
xVgWo TIL that one of the first recorded instances of the word "fuck" in its modern English meaning was in the court documents of a 14th-century case in reference to a man named in the documents as "Roger Fuckbythenavele".
l7eOa TIL Sigmund Freud's personal library in London has over 1600 books showing his wide range of interests and are still searchable today through the Freud Museum. Authors Freud had include Darwin, Locke, Feuerbach, Krafft-Ebing, Shakespeare, Goethe and Dostoevsky