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TIL that Bob Dylan has released 39 studio albums

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rRG1M TIL that Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull never took a lesson on flute and only started playing it a few months before recording Bouree. (He started relearning decades later after his daughter pointed out that he was doing it wrong.)
RM19 TIL that while Pixar was making Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a Unix command which deleted the film’s data. It was restored thanks to an animator who kept a copy of the data at home so she could work on the movie while caring for her new baby.
VM1MB TIL that after reuniting East and West Germany, East Germans protested the removal of their Ampelmännchen (little traffic men) resulting in one of the few positive things preserved from East German culture.
mxVvo More diverse communities of bugs set up camps in living rooms more than kitchens
W7N0X TIL Pears do not ripen on the tree. The pear is harvested when it is mature, but not yet ripe, and, if left at room temperature, it slowly reaches a sweet and succulent maturity as it ripens from the inside out