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TIL Paul McCartney replaced Ringo Starr as drummer for the studio recording of the Beatles' "Back in the USSR".

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KYO6G TIL about the United States of Greater Austria, a proposal by Archduke Franz Ferdinand to federalise Austria-Hungary to resolve nationalist and ethnic tensions in the empire
evmJ TIL Dog breeds differ in intelligence and have been graded according to the trainability aspect of their intelligence. The dogs considered to be the smartest are the ‘Border Collies’ and the dumbest are the 'Afghan Hounds.’
n77r TIL in 1966–the same year as “Paint It Black,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Substitute,” “Wild Thing,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “The Sounds of Silence,” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ”–Billboard’s #1 song of the year was “The Ballad of the Green Berets.”
4kmxR TIL that in 2000, Pope John Paul II became a Harlem Globetrotter
JYvrv TIL DC Comic's Watchmen was originally intended to use existing heroes from a company DC had just purchased. DC liked the proposal for the Watchmen but didn't want their new characters killed or made into villains. The Watchmen creative team reworked the Charlton heroes into similar substitutes.