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TIL two of the three members of rock band ZZ Top have long beards. The third, Frank Beard prefers to be clean shaven.

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XoYr TIL a teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 100 million tons due to its immense density. For comparison, the Empire State Building is purported to tip the scales at a mere 350,000 tons. Also, the highest mountain a neutron star can support is only about 4 inches, making it a near-perfect sphere.
5VDrk TIL that family names are rare in Pakistan, and almost all boys are given the first name “Muhammad.” They’ll instead use their second or third given name, and also append this given name to their children’s names.
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
4Dvg TIL that on their trip across the continent, Lewis & Clark came across a tribe that knew how to say “son of a bitch” in English.
b60x7 TIL: That in preparation for his role in the movie Hunger (2008), Michael Fassbender went on a special diet of less than 900 calories a day for ten weeks. After meeting with a nutritionist, he settled on a diet of berries, nuts, sardines and underwent periodic medical checks.