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TIL David Lucas, a producer of the 1976 rock hit "Don't Fear The Reaper", really did want more cowbell, while band members felt he was crazy. In a 2005 interview, the bassist recalled that the cowbell "really pulled the track together".

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b6E17 TIL about the village of Chicken, Alaska. In 1902, When the settlement grew large enough to be named, there were many ptarmigan living in the area so this was suggested as the name. However, the spelling could not be agreed on, so they named it "Chicken" instead.
l7yG TIL Bill Clinton, because of his Irish heritage, and his birth in Arkansas (a former French territory), is eligible to run for president in both Ireland and France.
yMPV TIL of a statistician who discovered the outside of a particular scratch-off lottery game was non random. He could correctly predict a winning ticket 90% of the time.
GYAA5 TIL that Flatworms participate in “penis fencing” where two hermaphroditic worms try to impregnate the other in order to become the alpha male, rather than having to bear children.
OolmL TIL about "The Johnson Treatment", where President Lyndon Johnson used to urinate or expose his penis during conversations to establish dominance.