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TIL Octopuses have blue blood, no bones and three hearts

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BrZxK TIL before becoming popular, the Beatles had several stints playing clubs in Hamburg, Germany. One period came to an end because Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best were arrested for arson and deported. They were caught setting fire to a condom in a concrete corridor.
XJmk TIL that in 2003, the Jim Bean warehouse in Kentucky, leaked bourbon into a near by pond and ignited a fire vortex over 100ft tall, and was caught on tape
b6LJN TIL that in 1907 French waiters went on strike for better pay, more time off - and the right to grow mustaches. At the time, lower-class workers were forbidden to have facial hair.
8aJML TIL That The Field of Dreams still exists in Iowa. You can take a tour of the house, the field and they have games where the players dress up like the old teams and come out to the baseball field through the corn field.
6ErbJ TIL the sun has a gravitational acceleration of 275 m/s². If one were able to walk on the sun they'd feel a force of 28 g (28 times the gravitational force on earth)