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TIL while recording the band Ween's 2003 album Quebec, Dean Ween got word from his roadie that Carlos Santana's guitar and equipment had arrived at a nearby storage locker. The band broke in and recorded the guitar solo for the song Transdermal Celebration on one take in less than ten minutes.

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R7Ga1 TIL of Jerimoth Hill, an 812 foot gentle slope, which was one of the hardest highpoints to reach in the US, because of an angry elderly man who would threaten those who entered his driveway which intersected the path to reach the summit
XEnok TIL a study conducted in 2019 in the United States found that almost half of people reporting they had a food allergy are wrong.
P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race
v1Enr TIL 29 years before Chenobyl, another lesser known nuclear disaster occurred in Kyshtym. Records are rare, but it seems some 10,000 people were evacuated and speculation that some 6000-8000 died
v1Roj TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."