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TIL that Tom Petty took guitar lessons from Don Felder.

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Axxo TIL in 2012 a man intentionally jumped off of the monorail at the Bronx Zoo into the tiger exhibit, to be ‘one with the tiger’. He survived, and when the police asked him why he did it he replied “everyone in life makes choices”.
ObWg TIL the Israeli Galil rifle was designed with a bottle opener by the front handguard because it was common for soldiers to damage magazines using them as bottle openers.
neapB TIL: Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, advocated setting synagogues on fire and & destroying Jewish homes, so that these "envenomed worms" would be forced into labour or expelled "for all time".
G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.
PYxrJ TIL that Finnish people recycle over 90% of their cans and bottles. This is because they get part of their money back from the cost of the product.