› added 5 years ago

284

TIL the day Jimi Hendrix died, Eric Clapton had bought a left-handed Fender Stratocaster as a gift for him. He intended on presenting it during a Sly Stone concert at the Lyceum that night, but Hendrix never showed up. The next day, Clapton learned why.

Read more americanbluesscene.com

via reddit.com

rE8w TIL the sunset on Mars is blue.
Ypobd TIL Mark Riedl developed software to create parody lyrics to existing songs and dubbed his creation 'Weird A.I. Yankovic'.
LQ6n0 TIL that couples who had more than 100 guests at their wedding are 84% less likely to get divorced than couples who eloped (no guests)
X0Xdr TIL that Arthur Hill Hassall (1817– 1894) was a British physician, and a pioneer in the use of the microscope as a tool in medicine and public health. In 1846 he published a two-volume study, ‘The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease’, the first English textbook on the subject
GEPG TIL in 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.