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TIL Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin plays soccer in Kidderminster every wednesday.

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vPeJD TIL that during the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.
X0LeX TIL about "It's Pat," a 1994 comedy movie based on the SNL character Pat, an androgynous misfit played by Julia Sweeney. It bombed at the box office so badly (grossing only $60,822 against an $8 million budget) that Touchstone Pictures pulled it from theaters after it's opening weekend.
pYERN Today I learned that Bernard Loiseau, a famous French chef, committed suicide in 2003 shortly after receiving a negative review. Loiseau was the inspiration for the character of Chef Gusteau in Pixar's Ratatouille.
GYJV7 TIL that the song “Lift Yourself” by Kanye West was made specifically to piss off Drake. Drake had been planning to use the “Lift Yourself” beat for his song, but Kanye didn’t give him enough time before releasing his own nonsensical version.
E16Px TIL: "39 or 40" decimals of pi are enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe within the size of the simplest known atom.