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TIL the Beatles album, Abbey Road, was originally going to be called Everest but none of the Beatles wanted to fly to the Himalayas to take a photo so they just called the album Abbey road.

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8aaAP TIL Michael Jackson had massive arcade at his Neverland home, featuring over 2000 cabinet arcade games, life size figures, and pieces of movie and video game memorabilia.
JY584 TIL Tom Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia at 6 yrs old and graduated high school as a functional illiterate, relying on his sister for help with schoolwork. He was in movies like Taps and Risky Business before learning to read in 1986 when he became a scientologist, the year Top Gun was released.
a6by TIL Rich Moore, director of Wreck-It Ralph, was a director of several Simpsons Episodes in the early 90s, including the original Tree House of Horrors
MwEa TIL that there are people who believe our birth certificates are actually bonds for money deposited in our names at birth, and these bonds are traded like stocks on the NYSE.
LkOxm TIL The hourglass is only 700 years old, and came into use at almost exactly the same time as the first mechanical clocks.