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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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d8Za8 TIL tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up.
9YkMB TIL before it became male-dominated, computer programming was a promising career choice for women, who were considered "naturals" at it. Computer scientist Dr. Grace Hopper said programming was "like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ready when you need it."
X0JJ8 TIL that by suppressing the expression of certain genes specifically for beak development, scientists were able to grow a chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak
E1OKP TIL In 2002 a 19-year-old garbage man won a 15 million dollar lottery, spent it all on drugs, gambling, and prostitutes, and became a garbage man again.
9Rx6 TIL NASA accidentally auctioned off for just $995 a bag that was used by Apollo 11 astronauts to collect the first lunar sample. When the buyer sent the bag to NASA for verification, the space agency realized its mistake and refused to return it.