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TIL that following Kobain's death, Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters as a small side project. When asked later about the name, he responded "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world."

Brj0W TIL of earthquake lights. Flashes of lights reported before earthquakes throughout history, only relatively recently photographed and seriously investigated.
gM0pW TIL of Qin Shi Huang the 1st emperor of China. Obsessed with immortality he sent out quests for magicians & searched for powerful mountains to give him long life. Reportedly, he died from poisoning due to ingesting mercury pills, made by his physicians believing it to be an elixir of immortality.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
Oo8NY TIL that the role of 11 years old Moaning Myrtle; the toilet ghost in Harry Potter movies, was played by Shirley Henderson who was 45 years old
aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.