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TIL that the band Alice Cooper broke up in 1975. Their singer, who had used the stage name “Alice Cooper,” then changed his legal name to Alice Cooper so that he could launch a solo career under the “Alice Cooper” name without legal complications.

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51ok TIL: French may quite possibly be the fastest growing language due to West African development
0Zpp TIL that “Daddy Long Legs” (Harvestmen not Cellar Spiders) are nonvenomous, lack fangs entirely, and aren’t even a spider.
BYmk TIL the longest confirmed sniper kill was by Craig Harrison who killed two Taliban insurgents from a distance of 1.54 miles. The bullet took 3 seconds to reach their targets, which were 914 m (3,000 ft) beyond the L115A3 sniper rifle’s recommended range.
5Ypo8 TIL april fool started when france switched from julian to gregorian calendar , and people who were slow to recognize January 1 as new year celebrated April 1 as new year became the day of jokes and swindle.
PQ0J TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.