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TIL Matthew Bellamy, lead singer/guitarist of Muse, holds the Guinness Book World Record for most guitars smashed on a tour for smashing 140 guitars on the Absolution Tour.

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X7WE TIL: In 1943, WWII destroyer O'Bannon found itself too close to a surfaced Japanese submarine to aim its guns. US Sailors saved the ship by throwing potatoes at the Japanese crew running to the sub’s deck gun.
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VxX4 TIL that when Henry Ford explained his idea of a gasoline powered car to Thomas Edison, Edison encouraged Ford that he “had it”. Ford claimed later that “No man up to then had given me any encouragement”.