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TIL the Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" included George Harrison on guitar, Carol King on electric piano, Ronnie Specter and Darleen Love on backing vocals and a supergroup of session musicians who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Earth Wind and Fire, Blues Brothers and others.

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Jdxk TIL Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge is the second rarest badge awarded coming in second only to the Astronaut Badge
VM0xQ TIL when Richard Feynman was in the State Curriculum Commission of California, he found out that some members of the committee which was responsible for choosing which books are used in public education had given a rating to not only unfinished, but completely blank textbooks [Page 173]
6990W TIL Animation legend Tex Avery lost use of his left eye, after during some spitballing between animators, one took it further by using a wire paperclip which accidentally hit Avery's eye, some believe this loss gave him a unique look at animation and his bizarre directorial style
BNGr TIL that this creature commonly called Waterbear can survive in outer space and vacuums. It’s resistant to extreme radiation, pressure, and temperatures. They can hibernate for a decade, and are found everywhere on earth from the Himalayas to the deep sea. No one has been able to classify them yet.
boZQ [TIL] Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a written plea to Adolf Hitler asking him to stop Germany’s aggressive advances in Europe. Hitler responded with a televised conference mocking each point FDR made in a speech that lasted over 2 ½ hours.