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TIL in 1995 Dave Grohl was offered the opportunity to be a full-time, permanent drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Dave turned down the offer to pursue the Foo Fighters instead.

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KO5oa TIL about Elina Powell, a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.
4g7b TIL that German chocolate cake isn’t German; it’s named after an American chocolate maker named Sam German who developed the dark chocolate originally used in the recipe.
R7MGw TIL that "Forgotten Baby Syndrome," the tragic phenomenon behind infant hot car deaths, is caused by change in routine and can happen to anyone
LQm99 TIL that Randy Bachman wrote the stuttering parts in their hit song "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" to make fun of his brother's stuttering. The song went to no. 1 on the billboard charts and no. 2 in the UK.
0wObp TIL about Joe Ronnie Hooper who was one of the most decorated soldiers of Vietnam and whose Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie