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TIL That The Beatles spell their name with an "a" because of the cultural and literary movement of The Beat Generation in 1950's America, and because John Lennon was a fan of Jack Kerouac.

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LknjZ TIL - About the “Mandela Effect” where a large group of people believe an event occurred when it did not. (IE the quote isn’t “Luke, I am your father”, just “No, I am Your Father”)
KOxkQ TIL in 2015, 100-year-old pub, The Carlton Tavern was illegally demolished by greedy developers. The pub was the only building in the street to survive the Blitz during World War II; because of that was subsequently ordered to be rebuilt brick by brick by the developer.
j6p5j TIL that C. S. Lewis' first two names were Clive Staples
xj57 TIL Kevin Spacey is a gifted impersonator
yQWWM TIL of Aurora, an exascale computer that neuroscientists plan to use to make a map of the human brain, or connectome. The brain has more connections than the milky way has stars; mapping it would represent the single largest dataset ever collected about anything in the history of the world.