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TIL that Pete Best, the original drummer for ‘The Beatles’, released an album of original songs titled “Best of the Beatles” at the height of their popularity. Fans bought it thinking it was a compilation album.

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gM7J7 TIL astronomer Galileo Galilei thought Saturn’s rings were arms
4XLQw TIL that a single dynasty has occupied the position of Emperor of Japan continually for over two thousand years, so long that the first 28 emperors are likely legendary.
xVNZD TIL The Mongols had a unique way of slaughtering animals. The animal was laid on its back, restrained, chest cut open and aorta torn, causing deadly internal bleeding. The process would keep all of the blood inside of the carcass. Then internal organs were removed and blood drained out for sausages.
x6pLo TIL that During World War II, the Quaker Oats company , through its subsidiary the Q. O. Ordnance Company, operated the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant as a government-owned, contractor-operated 11,960-acre site that manufactured millions of pieces of various artillery munitions.
0wM7M TIL the launching mechanism on an aircraft carrier could throw a pickup truck over a mile