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TIL Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said “I took 10 tabs of acid then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour. In the end the horse turned round and told me to fuck off. That was it for me.”

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X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
OOYY TIL That the man responsible for leaded petrol, Tomas Midgley Jr, “had more impact on the environment than any other single organism in Earth’s history”
Yj0x TIL beards and long dresses fell out of fashion during the 1900s due to public health campaigns about spreading tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Prior to germ theory and vaccines, people thought beards and fabric protected against miasma and “bad air”.
4kn66 TIL - Shuki Levy & Haim Saban composed hundreds of famous themes (e.g. Inspector Gadget, M.A.S.K., He-Man, She-Ra). Many of them were ghostwritten by other composers, in order to gain control of publishing rights and music royalty revenue. Ten composers threatened to sue and settled out of court.
8e51Z TIL Sharks cannot swim backwards because their pectoral fins, which unlike those of other fish are immobile, do not allow for backward movement. In addition, their streamlined body shape and the associated drag make it difficult to maintain stability and buoyancy when swimming backwards.