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TIL the guitar solos finishing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd were added to give lead singer Ronnie Van Zant a chance to rest while playing several sets per night.

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VrgD TIL Przewalski’s horse is the only truly wild horse left in the world. Other horses like American mustangs or Australian brumbies are feral domesticated horses.
rRPMy TIL about the Disney movie "John Carter" (2012), one of the most expensive films ever made, with a net budget of $263 million, and simultaneously one of the, if not the worst box office bomb ever, even adjusted for inflation. The movie resulted in a $200 million loss for Walt Disney Pictures.
7rNkp TIL that when David Lynch signed up for Dune (1984) he agreed to direct and write the screenplay, though he had not read the book, known the story, or even been interested in science fiction. Lynch worked on the script for six months yielding two drafts & subsequently worked on five more drafts
XWAP TIL The head of MI6’s Anti-Communist Section (IX) in 1944, was actually a Communist passing information on to Moscow.
ZpMKD TIL the Toraja people of Indonesia perform "Ma'nene", an annual ritual where the embalmed corpses of family members are removed from their tombs, groomed, dressed in new clothing, and treated as though they are still among the living. Torajans refer to the deceased as "sick", and only bury years on.