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TIL that John Lennon wanted Hitler, Jesus and Gandhi on the cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. For religious and moral reasons, that did not occur.

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9wP87 TIL New Zealand is only 6% of an underwater continent of nearly 5 million square kilometres (two-thirds the size of Australia, and larger than western Europe). That continent separated from the supercontinent of Gondwana between 85 million and 60 million years ago.
jNmVE TIL that there is a fake McDonald's restaurant in Los Angeles hiding in an office park used only for TV and commercial purposes
JYGgk TIL Richard Hatch, $1 million winner of the first season of Survivor, was jailed for tax evasion for not reporting his winnings
KYdo4 TIL a group of religious folks in Canada that believed in anarchy, vegetarianism and being naked clashed violently with the government. They detonated bombs and had naked protest parades because they felt their land and children were being unfairly taken from them
7l5x TIL the unofficial fastest recorded time to drive from New York, New York to LA, California was 28 hours and 50 minutes in a 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG