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TIL after an American Idol contestant was rejected by the judges, he told them to “Be careful” (a common way of saying “Farewell” in Louisville ). The judges bristled immediately and took the comment as a threat.

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DQnbr TIL: Antlers on deer, elk, etc are shed every year and re-grown the following year, and are not a part of their skeleton, unlike how horns are on bovines, sheep, etc.
4KRw TIL that illegal immigrants contribute roughly $15billion a year to Social Security, despite not being able to receive benefits for doing so due to falsified information or simply not being eligible.
OGV9e TIL Fender Guitars did a study and found that 90% of new guitar players abandon playing within 1 year. The 10% that don't quit spend an average of $10,000 on hardware over their lifetime, buying 5-7 guitars and multiple amps.
MeZQa TIL the re-introduction of extinct Red Kite to England in the 1990s was so successful that the population has grown to the point that it's now so large that it can no longer be counted accurately. English Kites are even being used to reintroduce the bird to other European countries.
VMbvB TIL that there was a long running hoax during World War II that Adolf Hitler was the inventor of the sex dolls. It was deemed as the "Borghild Project" and was "aimed at combating the spread of syphilis among Nazi troops by supplying the men with sex dolls."