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TIL Metallica’s lawyer once sent a cease and desist letter to a Metallica cover band. Metallica later said they had no idea the letter had been sent and offered an apology and told Rolling Stone that they had started out as a cover band, adding “Heck, we even recorded a two-disc album of covers!”

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Z8ePp TIL that george harrinson got the first number one hit with " my sweet lord" in december 1970, then mccartney with "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” in September 1971, then ringo with "Photograph” in November 1973 and finally john with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” feat. Elton John november 1974
7r9AZ TIL: The “Veuve” in Veuve Clicquot means widow. Madame Cliquot is considered the world’s first international businesswoman. Taking over her dead husband’s business at 27, she was only legally allowed to run it because she was a widow.
4XZpb TIL that Nazis ran brothels within concentration camps to motivate prisoners to work more. Over 35k women were forced into forced sex labour.
lovm7 TIL that last year a 70-year-old butcher in the south of England who became locked in his walk-in freezer, used a 1.5kg roll of black pudding to escape from the -20 degree celsius temperatures by using it as a battering ram
E1K6P TIL monks in Westminster Abbey would eat 6,000 calories a day normally and 4,500 a day when "fasting". They drank a gallon of beer and 10 oz of wine and ate 2.25 lbs of bread, 5 eggs, and 2 lbs of meat or fish a day. Many monks became obese and suffered related conditions.