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TIL that in the John Lennon hit "Whatever Gets You Through The Night", the person singing backup vocals and playing keys was Elton John

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R7p54 TIL The ancient Greeks and Romans used pomace to create an inferior wine normally given to slaves and common workers. After the wine grapes had been pressed twice, the pomace was soaked in water for a day and pressed for a 3rd time. It produced a thin, weak and thirst-quenching wine called piquette
jxpv TIL that there is an annual literature contest that challenges writers to come up with the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.
p84VG TIL the main guy behind creating U.S. National Parks—John Muir—may have never had a deep love of nature had he not suffered a major eye injury while working as a mechanic: “I bade adieu to all my mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God”
4kLjo TIL Porphyrios, the name given to a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century, loosely translates to "Purple boy".
epwWk TIL that the theme song for Magic School Bus was sang by Little Richard.