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TIL the repeated line “My life is brilliant” at the beginning of the James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” was truly an accident. Blunt started his vocal on the wrong measure, waited a moment, and then started it again. It was left in the final recording.

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Ma9A TIL that a radio station in Cincinatti was the first to broadcast at 500-kilowatts - a signal so powerful, some could hear the station from the metal in their mattresses and box springs.
6XZQ TIL an ultra high-res picture was taken of a crowd of approximately 100,000 people which gives you the ability to zoom in on any one person’s face. The image measures 69,394 X 30,420 pixels (2,110 Megapixels) and consists of 216 hi-res pics seamlessly stitched together.
WkBZd TIL the hotel where Jeremy Clarkson assaulted Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon now bears a plaque commemorating the event.
kJbL4 TIL Ernest Hemingway survived two blast-type injuries in WW1 and WW2, two plane crashes in Africa, a car accident in London during the blitz, a skylight falling onto his head in Paris and a motor vehicle accident as well as a fall from a fishing boat in Cuba. In total he had nine concussions.
b6mK9 TIL Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, a French entomologist, living in Medford, Mass. in the late 1800s, decided to create a cross-breed of caterpillars from native North American moths and European caterpillars Lymantria dispar, in order to start a competitive silk industry. (rest of the story in comment)