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TIL George Harrison once told John Bonham, “The problem with you guys is you never do ballads.“ The conversation eventually reached Jimmy Page who vowed “I’ll give him a ballad,” and wrote “Rain Song.“

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loXk7 TIL Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly
X0D7P TIL of the Spartathlon, a 246 kilometer race between Athens and modern-day Sparta. It is based on the run of Pheidippides, who in 490 BC ran from Athens to Sparta before the Battle of Marathon in a day and a half to seek aid against the Persians.
LkLlr TIL the same author (Daniel P. Mannix) is responsible for the source material of the films "Gladiator" and "The Fox & The Hound".
5l6r TIL That cops in Thailand are forced to wear a pink Hello-Kitty armband if they break the law or rules of duty.
4kV4X TIL that in 2019 a 73 y.o. patient died as a result of receiving a fecal transplant. Massachusetts General Hospital later confirmed that the donor's stool (poop) contained E.coli bacteria. Checks for E.coli had begun earlier in 2019 but were not applied to existing stool donations in frozen storage.