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TIL that Jimi Hendrix played guitar for Little Richard

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leb5 TIL Vin Diesel helped produce and finance Riddick (2013) and even put up his house as collateral to get it made. “If we didn’t finish the film, I would be homeless.”
AD41n TIL that the small "climbing boys" who were forced up chimneys to clean them sometimes had fires lit underneath them deliberately to encourage them to climb if they were reluctant, and would sometimes get caught in the flames and burn to death
yV7je TIL the 10,000 steps a day goal originated from a 1960s Japanese marketing campaign for a pedometer in the wake of the Tokyo Olympics
e1AJ TIL that ‘jazz’ is the hardest word to guess in a game of Hangman.
v1Qmx TIL about 'moral luck'. If two random drivers accidentally run a red light, but only one hits a person, we tend to think the latter is more guilty