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TIL Ringo Starr is a left handed drummer who plays a right handed drum kit, leading to his peculiar and uncharacteristic drumming style.

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D1B7V TIL there is a new drug for treating schizophrenia that consists of being given a shot 4 times a year, making it the first successful medication of its kind that doesn’t require patients to take daily pills.
GYdgE TIL Boxing trainer Cus D'Amato was criticised for being a proponent for the peek-a-boo style of boxing; it was believed that an efficient attack could not be launched from it. He coached Mike Tyson later in his career in this exact style, who would become the youngest world heavyweight titleholder.
QJ8Gp TIL portobello mushrooms are just grown-up versions of the common and smaller white/brown mushrooms
W7Ra9 TIL that in 2020, a Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Morgan pulled over an SUV driven by a five-year-old boy
Oog0R TIL that Stephen Pruitt has made more than 2,500,000 edits to Wikipedia articles (he's edited a third of Wikipedia's nearly 5.7 million pages) and has generated more than 31,000 original articles in the past 13 years.