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TIL Blink 182’s manager told them they needed a radio song on 2001’s album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Mark Hoppus vowed to make the cheesiest “throwaway fucking single” he could, and wrote “The Rock Show” in 10 minutes.

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a8ANb TIL of Aeschylus who was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell
DQwxJ TIL that moose are deer.
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awry9 TIL that a new species of bird was discovered in 1894 by David Lyall, but his pet cat Tibbles killed them off