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TIL the line "Turn it up" at the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama wasn't supposed to be in the song -- just instructions to the sound engineer.

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BgdWD TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity.
x6Awb TIL about the Wada Test, a procedure that "shuts down" one hemisphere of your brain at a time, leaving the other one awake. This allows the hemispheres to be evaluated for language and memory capacities individually.
0wd7v TIL that bushido (the samurai code of conduct) is a modern construct, invented by a Christian Japanese in an English publication
lo5Va TIL that Dolly Parton's family was so poor that the doctor who brought her into the world was paid with a sack of cornmeal
OGVkg TIL according to the (US) National Earthquake Information Center there are approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year, or 55 per day, with about 16 major earthquakes in any given year.