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TIL that most of the musicians heard playing on Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” were actually members of the band Toto.

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W740B TIL that until the mid 1900s, French cooking had a delicacy made from a type of bug called "cockchafers".
eJyg TIL that when famed reclusive author Thomas Pynchon appeared as himself on The Simpsons, he refused to speak one of the lines in which he was supposed to call Homer a “fat ass,” arguing he couldn’t possibly say anything bad about his “role model”
EgybP TIL McDonald's was fined $4 million in 1999 for not reporting 400+ injuries of children using Big Mac Climber jungle gyms, where children climbed up a tube from the ground and played between two giant metal hamburger buns. The last Big Mac Climbers were removed from McDonald's playgrounds in 1997.
kOrdd TIL that the appendix is not useless. Based on known facts, researchers asserted in 2007 that it stores beneficial bacteria to repopulate the body should it be purged of that bacteria by illness. An experiment then showed the disease C-diff to reoccur 4x more often in those without an appendix.
m6XO TIL There is a plan to stop the flow of Niagara Falls in order to repair some old eroded bridges, this would be the third time in recent memory the falls have stopped