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TIL that Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instruments, from drums to oboe.

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6EWXJ TIL That the word "Jiffy" (as in, "i'll be back in a jiffy" or "Jiffy Lube") refers to an actual Unit of time, 'The Jiffy', which is defined as "the amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum".
4kpyg TIL Until 1980, users of chess computers had to move the computer’s pieces by hand. The 1982 Novag Robot Adversary used a robotic arm to move pieces but only 2500 units were produced due to high failure rates
awaXJ TIL there is an enduring mystery about who wrote Black Betty (bam-a-lam), and what "Black Betty" stood for. It was first recorded in 1933, using black Texas prisoners.
jNWap TIL Despite smoking marijuana, using large amounts of cocaine, drinking to excess & being a heavy cigarette smoker, actor Steve McQueen followed a daily two-hour exercise regimen involving weightlifting and, at one point, running 5 miles, seven days a week and learned martial arts.
9xDX TIL - In Andorra the Police will loan a rifle to every able bodied man between 21 and 60 in case of emergency, but they suggest the men keep a rifle themselves.