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TIL ‘Sid Vicious asked Lemmy, the bassist of Motörhead, to teach him how to play bass with the words, “I can’t play bass,” to which Lemmy replied “I know.”’

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kVm4 TIL King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He refused to buy, and paid the chemist an annual salary to never sell his weapon to anyone else.
oR1YY TIL Sperm Whales consume roughly twice as much seafood as all of humanity combined per year. With Sperm Whales (the largest toothed predators) consuming roughly 300 million tonnes per year and humans consuming about 160 million tonnes. (Further sources in comments)
l7MWr TIL Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Wegovy all have the same active ingredient; the difference between them is the on-label use and their route of administration
oRlAR TIL, the Pan-European Picnic was a peaceful demonstration in 1989 where the border between Austria and Hungary was open for 3 hours and It was the largest refugee movement since the Berlin Wall was built. It started the chain reaction of the Warsaw Pact dissolving and the end of the Cold War.
6Ex8Q TIL that YouTube was created because co-creator Jawed Karim couldn’t easily find a place to view a clip of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime breast incident online