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TIL That in 1978 a radio station accidentally played "Imaginary Lover" by the Atlanta Rhythm Section at the wrong RPM, causing it to sound just like Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks eventually heard about it, and played the record at the increased speed for bandmates, who all believed it was her singing.

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neJ59 TIL about Buckfast--a wine brewed by some of the last Benedictine monks in Britain, sold as a tonic in UK pharmacies, and known infamously in Scotland as "Wreck the Hoose Juice" where it was associated with >40% of all violent crime there in 2015
9YgKp TIL The sun is not yellow, it’s white. Rayleigh scattering both makes the sky appear blue and the sun appear yellow by scattering the suns rays.
788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
Z474 TIL Venezuela’s prisons are so bad, that the inmates hold gladiatorial matches to settle disputes (Also, in that country, a person is murdered every 21 minutes. And in the last 15 years, there has been upwards of 200,000 murders)
69NJl TIL: Nebraska Senator Ernest Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in 2007, charging the almighty with “widespread death, destruction, and terrorization.” The case was dismissed with prejudice as God, lacking a fixed address, could not be properly notified of the lawsuit