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TIL that when Led Zeppelin requested “a lot of flat-chested little birds" for a party in New Orleans, recording industry giant Ahmet Ertegun brought four taxi cabs full of Girl Scouts to the gathering

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Dvov TIL Richard the Lionheart had 3,000 captured Muslim prisoners (including large numbers of women and children) taken to a hill. There, in full view of Saladin and his army, they were beheaded and disemboweled. Even in an age of atrocities, this was an act of exceptional and shocking barbarity.
Me1GB TIL that growing up, Samuel L Jackson has a bad stutter, which got him into acting so he could ‘pretend to be someone who doesn’t stutter’ and he also at this time started to use ‘motherfucker’ as an affirmation word to help keep from stuttering.
YypP TIL Every second of every day, the sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium. The other 5 million tons becomes energy. Every second.
4BPJ TIL the creators of Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gravity Falls all started out working together on the The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
KL6J TIL Actress Virginia Hey (Zhaan from Farscape) suffered 3 years of kidney bleeding from the blue makeup she wore for the show.