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TIL David Grohl dropped out of high school and doesn’t know how to read music, he plays his music by ear.

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ge6y TIL: In the 1930’s, Ben “Bugs” Hardaway, an animator who co-directed several Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, was asked to draw pictures of rabbits for a new short, while drawing, Ben labeled the papers as “Bug’s Bunny.” The name stuck.
WkydY TIL there are 5 times more former vegetarians/vegans than current ones.
8a08X TIL about Kalavati Devi, an Indian mason who was disgusted by people defecating in the streets of Kanpur and has built 4,000 public toilets so that people would not be subjected to a "living hell" regarding cleanliness, especially for women and children.
kOKG4 TIL the only account of Marco Polo's visit to China is his own first person one. There are no Chinese accounts of his trip and some scholars believe he never actually went at all but made it up using accounts from Persian travellers.
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