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TIL Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first album to feature printed lyrics on it's sleeve. Previously, printed lyrics was seen by music publishers as a substantial loss of income.

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Wk5XL TIL that crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards or snakes.
nwob TIL in a CIA program called “Operation Midnight Climax”, Prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to ‘safehouses’ in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 1-way mirrors.
gMRA4 TIL that Willem Dafoe had to use a penis-double for the movie Antichrist because, according to the director Lars von Trier, the actor's own dick was 'confusingly large'.
KABG TIL the role of Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean” was originally written for Hugh Jackman, however, Jackman was not very well known at the time, so Disney cast Johnny Depp instead
a8x6N TIL in 1954 a Hurricane hit Canada at a category 1 despite traveling all the way inland from the Carolinas. It killed 81 people in the Toronto area, 95 in the US, and 469 in Haiti.