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TIL H. Jon Benjamin released a jazz album called “Well, I Should Have…*” where he plays piano even though he doesn’t know how to.

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jNOKE TIL: Big circles of brick set in the pavement of some San Francisco intersections aren't meant as old-timey street decoration. They mark buried emergency water tanks in case the city ever catches fire again. They were put in after The Great Fire of 1906 (the big earthquake then broke water mains).
J1Kbm TIL that Ramones singer Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin attached to his back.
6ELmY TIL That beyond the 3 states of matter; solid, liquid and gas, there is a 4th state called plasma which is an aggregate of charged ions. Not only does it occur naturally in lightning and on the surface of the Sun it can also be produced in the laboratory.
LQLJ9 TIL that Samuel "Sam" Houston, the 1st and 3rd President of the Republic of Texas who served as Governor of both Tennessee and Texas, and for whom the city of Houston in Texas is named, was descended from the Houston baronets and Clan Houston in Scotland. He was also a member of the Cherokee Tribe.
rN5Wo TIL William Gebhardt invented chili powder as we know it today in the back room café of a saloon that had alligator pits and badger fights.