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TIL Chuck Berry is still alive and performs once a month at a restaurant near St. Louis

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W7pP4 TIL: Farmers feed “cow magnets” to their cattle to protect them from “hardware disease” caused by swallowing nails and other metal objects
D1kEv TIL "Foo Fighters" was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project. It was a nickname coined by Allied aircraft pilots for UFOs. Grohl named it after that, as he wanted people to feel that it was a group, because he had recorded the first record by playing all the instruments himself.
dDX9Q TIL The modern Western salute originated in France when knights greeted each other to show friendly intentions by raising their visors to show their faces (according to some modern military manuals, though the history is uncertain and other theories exist)
P1OZG TIL the male gharial crocodile's hollow bulbous nasal protuberance starts growing over the nostrils around age 11.5. The bulbous snout tip enables hissing that can be heard 75 metres (246 feet) away. The gharial is the only living crocodile with visible sexual dimorphism
W7EJL TIL: You can name a cockroach after your ex at the San Antonio zoo