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TIL that Joe Perry sold his 1959 Gibson Les Paul during his 1982 divorce. Later he found the guitar was owned by Slash. Perry called Slash and bugged him for years, offering to pay more than the guitar's worth. Years later at Joe's 50th birthday party, Slash finally gave him the guitar as a gift.

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E1G7o TIL that pumpernickel, a type of rye bread, is named after the Germanic word "pumpern" meaning flatulent, and "Nickel" a reference to to Old Nick (a familiar name for Satan). The dense bread is hard to digest, causing excess flatulence. Hence pumpernickel means "the devil's fart."
xwK1 TIL how Oskar Schindler - in addition to saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during WW2 by hiring them to work in his factory - purposely recalibrated the machines to produce bogus artillery shells for the German war effort.
b6EkQ TIL: In 1962 a man named Martin K. Speckter invented "the interrobang" (‽), a glyph which combines the glyphs and functions of the question mark (?) and exclamation point (!).
aNkN TIL the first female to circumnavigate the globe was a goat, affectionately nicknamed “The Goat”, who traveled around the world twice with Captains Wallis and Cook. Cook grew so fond of her he allowed her to live at his home after their voyage and noted her death in his personal journal
GBeN TIL a father once jumped off a 100 foot bridge holding his 2 toddler sons after getting into an argument with their mother. The father was killed on impact, BOTH boys survived.