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TIL Jimi Hendrix never had a #1 single. Or even in the top 10. His highest charting single reached #20.

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xVA7B TIL Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state of Israel, one was a mistake the other was Adolf Eichmann
oOBW TIL Walt Disney had his mustache accidentally lit on fire by the animator Ken Anderson. Ken was worried that he’d be fired, and it was showing in his work, so Walt shaved his mustache and spent the week eating lunch with Ken so he wouldn’t feel so alienated.
b6gLN TIL that Kurt Cobain got the inspiration to make Nirvana's famous song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when Kathleen Hanna, the singer of the band "Bikini Kill" wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on a board. Teen Spirit was a woman's deodorant and he didn't knew it until he was done with the song.
6E688 TIL about an experimental social movement created by high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It quickly got out of control and he had to stop it. There was even a resistance movement that had formed.
kJVM4 TIL 22 of the 50 oldest living people were born in Japan.