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TIL the iconic solo in Beat It was done by Eddie Van Halen, and before the solo, it's Michael Jackson tapping on a drum case (and is credited as such) about 2m40s into the song

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78byM TIL there's an abandoned town in Turkey with a failed property development of Disney-esque castles
yVaEX TIL the island of Himakajima, Japan, has a single set of traffic lights and turns green only once a year to teach kids how to cross roads safely before they move to the mainland
ep0mn TIL that Alan Turing (cryptographer responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II) was also an Olympic-level runner and he developed a new field of biology out of his fascination with daisies.
GANYj TIL the Welsh alphabet contains double letters like ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh, and th.
rNMex TIL James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake is named after a comedic Irish-American ballad called Finnegan's Wake, about a man who breaks his skull and is thought dead, but when whiskey is spilled on his body at his wake, comes back to life and joins the celebration