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TIL that in 1983 a group of Aussie friends started a quest to drink a beer at every pub in Melbourne. 32 years and 476 pubs later they completed their quest…

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W7NmB TIL that Carly Simon is the daughter of the Simon in Simon & Schuster
e0kDb TIL of Pierre Brassau, an artist of the “avant-garde modern art” style. He was a chimpanzee, promoted by a Swedish journalist, to see if critics could distinguish between the style and the work of a chimpanzee. Most critics praised the work.
yDaJ TIL that according to the unpublished notes written by J.R.R Tolkien regarding ‘The Silmarillion’, 'Melkor’ (a Dark lord that preceded Sauron) was prophesised to return and wage an apocalyptic war, presumably thousands of years after the war of the ring.
m1W8Y TIL in 2012, the remainder of the Wilhelm Unger Games in Germany were cancelled after a referee was running to measure the distance of a javelin throw while it was still in the air and was struck in the face and throat by it. The referee died after being taken to the hospital.
oMbE TIL When Danny Glover first said the line, “I’m getting too old for this shit”, was back in 1987. He was 40 at the time.