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TIL When guitarist Slash wrote “Sweet Child O’ Mine” he had an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as a simple “string skipping” exercise and considered it a joke at the time.

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78QRO TIL: A juvenile narwhal lost in the St. Lawrence River got adopted by a group of beluga and has stayed with them since at least 2016
mxvLo TIL crew members of the Challenger space shuttle survived the “explosion,” manually activated their emergency breathing packs, and were very likely alive for the full 2 minute and 45 second, 65,000 foot free-fall until their crew cabin crashed into the ocean.
RRY8 TIL there is a tree that sheds part of its outer bark annually, showing a bright green inner bark which then darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones…
a8VaA TIL some states don’t have any requirements to perform autopsies in the US
8aglL TIL men in some parts of Colombia have sex with donkeys and it is socially acceptable