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TIL Frank Zappa put “musician” as his religion on his son Dweezil’s birth certificate.

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16bEO TIL that when St. Patrick was 16, he was captured by Irish pirates and sold as a slave in Ireland. He escaped after six years, attended seminary, and after becoming a priest, he chose to return to the land where he had been enslaved, eventually bringing Christianity to Ireland.
9wVQM TIL if you watch the first season of 'Happy Days', you'll notice the Fonz wears penny loafers and windbreakers for many scenes. ABC only allowed the character to wear his later trademark leather jacket if he was standing next to his motorcycle.
5878 TIL that the Windows 10 default background is an actual Image, not digitally created.
woO1 TIL that rejected fruit flies use alcohol to cope.
MeXwm TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.