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TIL That the band Radiohead was indirectly named after character actor Stephen Tobolowky

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Me0k7 TIL of the greenheart tree, whose wood is so strong it cannot be worked on with regular tools
m1jEy TIL that Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols once appeared on Judge Judy
nnEr TIL until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson’s elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as “Claudia” to strangers
X09VX TIL in 1968, the U.S. Army accidentally released 160 gallons of VX nerve gas in Utah, killing over 6,000 sheep and sparking public outrage that helped end America’s biological weapons program.
neNB7 TIL many neurologists believe that the phaseout of leaded gasoline in the United States caused the average IQ to increase by several points.