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TIL As a child Joe Walsh struggled to learn the guitar solo to the Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing”. Upon meeting a Beatle years later he found out it was an overdubbed two-part solo and that he might be the only person in the world that could play both parts at once.

O55X TIL that to become a man in the Etoro tribe of New Guinea, you must perform oral sex on your father or other village elders, and swallow their semen
BgmPD TIL that Archie Comics Jughead Jones' iconic "crown" is actually a style of hat known as a whoopee cap. Made of a fedora with the brim cut and folded upwards, it was a style of hat popular in the mid-20th century. Youths often decorated their caps with buttons or bottlecaps, as seen in Jughead's cap
AQVn TIL Synsepalum dulcificum is a “Miracle Fruit” which, after consumed, makes sour foods taste sweet. And in the 1970’s an attempt to commercialize this fruit for that purpose failed with accusations of the sugar industry sabotaging the research to prevent loss of business
8aRaK TIL that Star Wars was one of the first films selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in 1989, but it has yet to receive an archival print of the original film. George Lucas tried to submit a "Special Edition" print in 1997, but it was rejected due to its alterations of the 1977 print.
kOWn4 TIL in 2018, it rained 50 inches in 24 hours in Hawaii, setting a US record - that's more than 4 feet of rain. OF RAIN.