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TIL that when the song "More Than a Feeling" was recorded, Boston wasn’t a real band yet, it was just one guy recording alone in his basement.

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W7EQA TIL That A generation of scientists at the Solvay Conference, 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
kOxD7 TIL in 2012, a burger king employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. He was promptly fired.
LMLm TIL 1 out of every 77 neonatal (first 4 weeks of life) male deaths is a result of circumcision. That’s more deaths than suffocation and cat accidents. Geez.
ol4W TIL 80% of white tigers will die of birth defects as a result of inbreeding.
78yBX TIL Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II are honorary Harlem Globetrotters