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TIL the builder of the Watts Towers, Simon or Sam Rodia, is on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (top right corner, to the left of and behind Bob Dylan)

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WkoWL TIL The Nike sneaker based on Freddy Krueger was ordered to be destroyed due to legal issues. The already made pairs were covered in oil and set ablaze , just like Freddy was in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film
jNkaX TIL modern bikini (clothing) was named after US nuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll in 1946
D1b0J TIL of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: born in South Carolina the black son of a sharecropper in 1907, he danced on the street for coins as a child, lost his leg at 12, taught himself to tap-dance afterwards, was competing in talent shows by 15, on Broadway by 20 and performing for royalty by 30.
DrJV TIL after a bloody war with Ethiopia in 2001, half of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s Cabinet signed a letter asking him to reconsider his authoritarian style of government. He promptly charged his own ministers with treason and threw them in jail, where they remain today.
BrR7W TIL that archaeologists routinely find edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs - the stuff never spoils, due to extremely low water-content, very low pH, and hydrogen peroxide (made by an enzyme in the bees' stomachs).