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TIL "Desperado" was not a hit for the Eagles until Linda Ronstadt recorded it. According to an interview with Don Henley

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rQNx TIL that the famous flag over the Reichstag photo from WW2 had to be edited because one of the soldiers had a wristwatch on each arm, indicating he had been looting.
lkJV TIL The astronauts in the Challenger Explosion survived the initial explosion and survived for nearly three minutes, until the cabin crashed into the ocean at a speed of 200 MPH
grOPb TIL that the reason Kratos from God of War calls his son "boy" is because developers "couldn’t think of a good name for the kid". The character just didn’t have a name for part of the development process.
O9LR TIL the Python programming language was named after Monty Python, not the animal.
kNkd TIL the black panther is not a species but a melanistic (opposite to albinistic) jaguar or leopard