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TIL In 1969 a 14 year old boy managed to sneak into John Lennon’s hotel room with a reel-to-reel recorder and Lennon actually agreed to be interviewed by him. The recording still exists.

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b9ERj TIL that the term "OK" achieved national prominence in 1840, when Democrats claimed during the election that it stood for "Old Kinderhook," a nickname for incumbent President Van Buren. In response, Whig opponents attributed OK ("Oll Korrect," or all correct) to the bad spelling of Andrew Jackson.
gMA1D TIL in 2013, there was a train crash in Australia caused by millipedes. There were so many of them on the tracks that a train pulling into a station ended up losing friction from squishing so many of them and crashed into another train.
O5j6 TIL: The characters in the animated series Archer are modeled after real people.
RJ8 TIL that in humans, the nasal cycle means that during the course of a day, the nostrils will switch over approximately every four hours or so.
6J6Z TIL,Cameraman, Frankie Biando, has been filming Sesame Street since the first season and still operates Camera 1 on today’s set.