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86QG TIL CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
PYwbw TIL after the band Alice Cooper bombed a show in the first ten minutes, a manager approached them and arranged an audition with Frank Zappa at his house at 7 o'clock. They misinterpreted this as 7 in the morning and woke him up, who was impressed nevertheless and signed them for a three album deal.
7rwpL TIL the same actor (Troy Gentile) plays the young version of Jack Black in both Tenacious D and Nachos Libre.
DQ9GV TIL about the Chamblee hostage incident, where a man, believing Domino's "Noid" mascot was mocking him, took hostages in a restaurant with a fake gun in 1990.
b9DY9 TIL the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is both a bridge and a tunnel. Considered one of the 7 wonders of modern engineering, it was completed in 1964 and is 23 miles long.