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TIL Los del Río, the artist who performed "Macarena" were formed in 1962, the year before the Beatles released their first album

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g4jW TIL I learned the Village People didn’t create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a “Y” and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
KrmG TIL that the person who plays Happy on Sons of Anarchy, David LaBrava, was not an actor but a Hells Angels member brought in as a technical advisor. He was eventually cast as Happy and by the end of the show, he had his name in the opening credits.
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
Jwyk TIL you should never defragment a solid-state drive (SSD)
K5pB TIL 14% of Americans are illiterate