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TIL: The Beatles did it 30 years before Nirvana. Refusing to properly fake it on Top of the Pops.

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nWw6P TIL the "AIR CHINA" written on Air China flight liveries is a calligraphy by China's former leader Deng Xiaoping.
Zpm1a TIL that, according to NASA, huge asteroid impacts (around the size of the Chicxulub asteroid, which is the one that killed off the dinosaurs) occur about every 50-100 million years. Chicxulub hit earth 66 million years ago.
ZMGY TIL The original Bates Motel from Psycho is still standing, the car driven by Janet Leigh is still parked in the lot.
xVpGg TIL 10% of all people over the age of 60 have Alzheimer's disease, and as many as 50% of people over 85 have it. The number of people with the disease doubles every 5 years beyond age 65.
VbYD TIL that in 1994, a brewery in Oregon brewed and then froze 300 gallons of barleywine. In 2013, they bottled and sold 12oz. bottles for $2,000 a piece.