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TIL Dave Grohl only knew Kurt Cobain for about three years and they weren’t very close.

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P1E0e TIL about London's "Frost Fairs" back when the river Thames used to freeze over about once a decade. People would set up shops, pubs and ice skating rinks on a layer of ice thick enough you could walk an elephant on it. The last fair was held in 1814, that was the last time the river ever froze.
0wLW1 TiL that Tobe Hooper, the director behind "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), also directed the music video for Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself"
ADaE7 TIL that it has been argued that the "rib" (צְלָעֹת ṣela‘, also translated "flank" or "side") in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals but that is absent in the human penis.
E1lJ7 TIL Natalie Imbruglia’s 1997 hit “Torn” is a cover of a 1993 Danish song called “Burned”.
WwJB TIL that due to never setting a formal day of statehood, Ohio didn’t technically become a state until 1953