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TIL When Ed Sheeran won a Grammy in 2013 for "The A Team" he wasn't deemed famous enough to perform alone so Elton John insisted on a duet with him.

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XEYyE TIL where cocktail most likely got its name. A horse with a cocked tail seemed to posses more vigor. Horse traders would add ginger and pepper in the horses' rectum to provide an added dose of spice. On conclusion one would pour an alcoholic drink for oneself flavoured with these common ingredients.
aDLM TIL that Mother Teresa believed suffering brought people closer to Jesus and therefore withheld pain killers from her patients.
VMkoB TIL Malden Mills, Inventor of the Popular Polartec fleece fabric, burned down in a fire in 1995. Instead of taking the opportunity to save money and move operations, the owner kept paying all workers while they rebuilt. it cost the owner over $25 million.
E1NZ7 TIL The communal chatter of snapping shrimp colonies on the ocean floor created enough white noise that the U.S. Navy successfully hid submarines near them during WWII, avoiding detection by underwater Japanese hydrophones.
6X7J TIL that someone in Utah made a full scale real life version of the house from the Pixar’s movie ‘Up’