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TIL Gerry Rafferty, famous for the song Baker Street and stuck in the middle with you with Steelers Wheel, was once in a folk-pop duo with famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly .

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j6pwR TIL about Reba Z. Whittle, an American flight nurse who, in 1944, became the only military female prisoner of war in the European Theater of World War 2. The German doctor who treated her injuries said:"Too bad having a woman as you are the first one and we don't know exactly what to do."
6B97 TIL that during the production of the video-game Deus Ex (released in 2000), the artist forgot to add the twin towers to the New York skyline. The in-game explanation was that it was the result of a terrorist attack.
4XPmN TIL that ‘spontaneous human combustion’ has been recorded to have happened several times in history.
mRRO TIL Ernest Hemingway invented a cocktail: Absinthe and Champagne or, “Death in the Afternoon.”
MeQxa TIL in 2001 the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, ancient Buddha statues built into an Afghan mountain. Shortly after their destruction, researchers uncovered an archeological cave site behind the statues. The Taliban unintentionally uncovered new Buddhist treasures through their actions.