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TIL during Rolling Stones concerts, Keith Richards would help build elebarate speaker systems on stage, so he would have a secret place to snort pharmaceutical cocaine…“one bump, one song”

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oBYdW TIL Theodore Roosevelt had A LOT of pets. His family had a badger, rabbits, a macaw, several guinea pigs, multiple horses, a pony, multiple dogs, a bear, a lizard, a hen, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, and a rabbit.
x6XR7 TIL that King Charles III is not the first British royal to assume that name. Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne and grandson of King James II of England, was known as Charles III by his supporters.
AN7ao TIL that in 1942, Nazi Germany was patrolling off the North Carolina coast, and a British ship was sunk defending the NC coast.
R7EVl TIL in 1980, ABC tried to duplicate Saturday Night Live with an edgier show called Fridays. By the 3rd episode some stations refused to air it due to objectionable content concerning zombie gore, cannibalism and blasphemous humor. Several writers would go on to make Seinfeld - including Larry David.
A1Qd TIL Lucille Ball’s production company, Desilu, produced the original Star Trek TV series, and Lucy herself approved the development of the Star Trek concept into a series