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TIL The chief executive of Royal Albert Hall was furious about The Beatles lyric stating, "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium threatened to destroy its business overnight."

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1a594 TIL of Jane Elliott, a teacher who divided her class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The brown-eyed group were told they were less intelligent, the blue-eyed superior, the brown-eyed accepted their lower position and the blue-eyed became more arrogant
l70Va TIL the diabetes drug exenatide was isolated from the venom of the only venomous lizard native to the US, the Gila monster
69lRZ TIL that in 2009, a suicidal man survived going over Niagara Falls. A local helicopter tour pilot attempted to rescue the man by lowering his helicopter enough that the man could grasp the skids, but the man refused. Eventually, the pilot used the rotor wash to push the man to shore.
OG4P1 TIL Post Malone & Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’ song from the 2018 animated movie “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” became the first ever single to be certified as double diamond or 20x platinum in the US. On top of that, Post Malone has also the most diamond certified singles in RIAA history.
69LPZ TIL after a boy in the 1930s found what looked like a "great lump of coal", his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had "a little look at it." This led to the realization it was the world's largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.