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TIL when Bruce Springsteen met Joey Ramone (of The Ramones), he was asked to write a song for The Ramones and originally wrote “Hungry Heart” for them. He then decided to keep it for himself based on the advice of his manager.

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g6YD TIL that President Wilson actually VETO'ed the Volstead Act but congress passed it anyway bringing on the beginning of Prohibition.
ne6Bd TIL Mamoru Samuragochi is a deaf Japanese composer, who known as the “digital-age Beethoven” and creator of Onimusha’s OST. But, it later turned out that all of his works in 18 years were actually written by a ghost writer. And his deafness is all fake
VM1mm TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice
VMwJB TIL about a theory on human’s relationship with mind-altering-substances like the DMT. It asserts that in order for our body to even be able to interact with some of these chemical compounds, our genetics must have been interacting with them for a really long time.
vlQx TIL that when Genghis Khan’s eldest son Juchi died while hunting, his subordinates, fearing punishment for bringing bad news, forced a musician to do it. The musician performed a melody, Genghis Khan understood the message, and “punished” the instrument by pouring molten lead on it