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TIL Slash shoplifted his hat.

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r6gW TIL that Pete Best released an album in 1965 called “Best of the Beatles” that contained no Beatles music but fooled so many people into buying it that it was investigated for consumer fraud. The case was dropped because no fraud had been committed, he was Best, of the Beatles.
lA1B TIL that the British Secret Service (James Bond’s employer) really can issue a “license to kill”. It’s called a Class Seven authorization, and must be approved by the MI6 agent’s superiors all the way up to the Foreign Minister.
aw0bb TIL that in 1997 three boys in war- torn Sierre Leone were on the brink of starvation, when they spotted a single yam under a tree. They desperately went to dig it up, but when they did they discovered a 100 carat diamond underneath.
e0Ebn TIL the film Zootopia/Zootropolis has a different animal for the newscaster in different countries.
X0w8k TIL the iconic six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, "The Microsoft Sound" was created on a Mac. The creator, Brian Eno, admitted "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."