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TIL Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac play on Werewolves of London. Warren Zevon and his band wrote the song, but Jackson Browne and T Bone Burnett performed it before he did.

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W4Md TIL The Domestic Housecat is believed to be primarily Responsible for the Extinction of at least 33 species of Birds, as well as declining populations of far more
D1jlr TIL that the long-standing notion of late WWII 'Kamikaze' pilots as hyper-nationalist zealots was largely fiction. Many pilots were reluctantly drawn from the educated and liberal in Japan, and many expressed frustration at the futility of their nation's cause and the sanctity of the Emperor.
QJ4yL TIL that Chris Langan, "the smartest man in America" with an IQ reportedly between 190 and 210, began weight training at the age of twelve after repeatedly being physically beaten by his stepfather and stopped the abuse himself at the age of fourteen by throwing him out of the house.
0wxvL TIL that most of Hawaii's male prison population are housed in Eloy, Arizona by contract. The guards must take a Hawaiian diversity training class.
8aa6L TIL Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb. He merely improved Joseph Swan’s design which had been patented 10 years before Edison. Swan sued Edison for patent infringement and won.