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TIL At the start of "Daydream Believer", Davy Jones says "7a", annoyed at the number of takes before they got it right. The single was originally intended as a B side but the other track wasn't ready. It went on to be their biggest hit.

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896Z TIL that the deepest artificial hole on Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It is 12,262m deep, which is 1% of the distance from Earth’s center.
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Z8Jbp TIL that on NASA's Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule.
nePxb TIL Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old "chewing gum."
awoZo TIL about Sounding, the act of inserting a metal rod into your urethra. Sounding tubes are meant to be used medically, but some people figured out that they experience sexual pleasure from the act.