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TIL - 50% of Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page) played on Donovan's 1966 hit, "Sunshine Superman."

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QNAp TIL there’s a Puzzle Alarm Clock that shoots three puzzle pieces into the air and it’s your job to collect them to turn the alarm off!
wL51 TIL Isaac Newton was like Dirty Harry in 17th century London - chasing counterfeiters of the Royal Mint, bribing crooks for info, threatening criminals and their famlies, eventually focusing on his nemesis. And then he burned all his notes to cover his dirty ways of catching crooks.
mP1M TIL The back of the tin for Boston Harbour Tea carries this lament: “This Tea is from the same London blending House which in the Year of Our Lord 1773 had the Misfortune to suffer a Grievous Wrong in that certain Persons did Place a quantity of its Finest Produce in Boston Harbour.”
69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
NNNN TIL Approximately 75% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant. The 25% of people who aren’t are generally of North European descent.