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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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E1dZP TIL of the Surya Siddhanta, a book written in 4th century CE in India which describes the Earth’s diameter as 8000 miles (7928 by current standards) and the spherical shape of the earth also providing an accurate distance of the Moon from the earth before much before Galileo.
pYwrN TIL about the Union Army Balloon Corps, a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, hydrogen balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.
4jwo TIL When Alexander the Great was invading India he learnt of a Brahmin who lived in the woods. He visited him and the Brahmin replied, “You will soon be dead, and then you will own just as much of this earth as will suffice to bury you”. Alexander approved of this sentiment and left him in peace.
b9m89 TIL that upon its initial release in 1976, Bohemian Rhapsody's peak Billboard position was #9; 16 years later, it reappeared at #2 after being featured in Wayne's World.
PYgPg TIL Salvador Dali didn’t believe he would die, “If someday I may die, although it is unlikely, I hope that the people in the cafes will say, ‘Dalí has died, but not entirely.’” This is fitting considering that a museum in Florida is bringing him “back to life” for an AI enhanced exhibition.