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4NBb TIL That the original lyrics to the “Paradise City” verse were “Take me down to the Paradise City where the girls are fat and they’ve got big titties”
R5Ga TIL that Hugh Hefner didn’t lose his virginity until he was 22.
epK7J TIL that beer changed statistics. W.S. Gosset was a scientist for Guinness Beer checking samples of ingredients against a standard. Adapting the normal distribution into a t-distribution allowed for fewer samples. He published it under the pseudonym “Student”, so was known as the Student's t-test.
OG5M7 TIL of the Angola, LA Prison Rodeo where untrained prisoners ride bulls and play "convict poker"
W1G9 TIL that a New Mexico man tried to kill a mouse that he had caught in a glue trap by burning it alive on a pile of burning leaves. Instead, the fire melted the glue, freeing the flaming mouse which then ran back inside the man’s home and started a fire which burned the house down