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TIL Paul Simon thanked Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album that year in his acceptance speech for the 1976 Best Album Grammy. Stevie had won the previous two years, and would, indeed, win again in 1977.

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wL0jP TIL domestic dogs are one of only a few species that can understand that the human gesture of pointing means, "look in the direction my finger is pointing". Other animals, including wolves and other primates, don't understand how it works and will only be interested in your outstretched finger.
9YVpr TIL first editon of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” in USA got changed into “Sorcerer’s Stone” instead. Because a scholastic thought that "Philosopher" sounded too archaic for Americans, Rowling later said that she regretted this change
AlB4 TIL Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear punched Piers Morgan in the face.
YpawB TIL of a man, Michael Fagan, who at least once in 1982 broke into Buckingham Palace by climbing a drain pipe. He entered the Queen's bedroom and asked for cigarettes, which a maid bought him, before finally being arrested.
7mkL TIL in 2007 a German pensioner was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog ‘Adolf’ to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered