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TIL that The Animals’ frontman Eric Burdon claimed he inspired the Beatles' line "I am the Eggman" after telling John Lennon about a sexual experience he had with his girlfriend involving a raw egg

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p8894 TIL Chrysler once made a motorcycle out of a Doge Viper V-10 engine. The top speed was estimated to be 400 mph.
40X TIL while Mariana’s Trench may be the deepest area of any ocean, it isn’t part of the seafloor closest to the center of Earth.
Lkjdd TIL that Austria has a nuclear power plant that costed more than a billion euros to make which has never been turned on. This is because the government held a vote on whether to use nuclear power or not after it was made, and 50.5% voted no.
RMRl TIL new research suggests that dolphins are second only to humans in smarts