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TIL Both Rolling Stone Magazine and the Band, the Rolling Stones, named themselves after the song Rollin' Stone, written by Muddy Waters, in 1950

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pM5N TIL: In 2001, John Hopoate was suspended from Rugby for twelve weeks because he “had been inserting his fingers into the backsides of several players”
ep7Gn TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.
4Xg46 TIL that while primarily attributed to the punishment of Germany, the Treaty of Versailles also established a universal concert pitch due to longstanding debates regarding the frequency which orchestras should tune to.
GXAN TIL that a 19-year old Dutch teenager created an invention that could clean up the seas in just 5 years instead of 79 000 years required with the technical means available today
6E4QW TIL Some Whale's Milk is so Full of Fat that it has the Consistency of Toothpaste