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TIL musician Bruce Welch loaned Paul McCartney his apartment and so became the first person to hear “Yesterday.” McCartney had written the lyrics in the car on the way there.

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M77Y8 TIL Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, who played the parents on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," were born on the exact same date - June 21, 1947.
yZeV TIL that there is a law in São Paulo that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters.
jklM TIL Janice Joplin was voted “Ugliest Man on Campus” by fraternity brothers at UT Austin while she was a student there.
VXEG TIL that Darth Vader’s mask was inspired by an old Swiss Army helmet.
N7pJ6 TIL about Rebecca Huger, an 11-year-old emancipated slave girl who posed for patriotic photos with the U.S. flag; the photos were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. "To all appearance she [was] perfectly white," like her father/former owner.