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TIL there is a Peruvian dish called Cuy which consists of cooked Guinea Pig.

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Eo57 TIL Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys interviewed “Weird Al” in 1996 and had Spike Jonze (in a neck brace) repeatedly interrupt the interview posing as a crazed fan, and arranged for Yoko Ono to walk by just as Al was talking about being denied permission to parody Beatles songs.
l76m5 TIL the first use in print of the term 'heavy metal' to describe a genre of music was in the review of Sir Lord Baltimore's 1970 debut album, Kingdom Come, in Creem magazine.
LrrQ TIL there are 15 different types of electrical outlets around the world and some are exclusive to a single country.
OGX7 TIL the nonsense song that Rafiki sings to Simba in The Lion King is actually a common Swahili children’s song
QJK0a TIL the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. They later cleaned up contaminated soil on Enewetak Atoll, only to later deposit 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada testing site in the same place.