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TIL of Cigarettes and Valentines, an unreleased Green Day album that's tapes were stolen prior to release. Prompting them to write American Idiot.

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6E5vJ TIL the lyric “they stab it with their steely knives” from “Hotel California” by the Eagles is a nod to Steely Dan for the free publicity they gave them when the Eagles were mentioned in a lyric from Steely Dan’s song “Everything You Did” which goes “turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening”.
4XPrJ TIL Nicolas Cage did magic mushrooms after his cat snuck into his refrigerator and ate some.
YQgv TIL the Alpine swift can stay in flight for over 6 months without landing once.
xVRGg TIL Solitary bees are considered "super pollenators" with a 95% pollination rate compared to honeys bees at 5%
RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War