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TIL ‘Yak Shaving’ is the term for getting sidetracked by multiple other tasks before finally being able to complete what you originally started out to do.

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Brj9r TIL the margarita so named because it is based on a popular Mexican drink, the Daisy. "Margarita" is Spanish for "daisy".
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LDPQ TIL that in Jewish folklore, Adam had a wife named Lilith before Eve was created.
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J18x4 TIL that Robbie Williams covered "She's the One" without the original artist's permission, and deliberately angers him further by claiming to have written it when introducing the song live