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TIL Ringo Starr plays the drums left-handed on a right-handed drum set.

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Ekvo TIL During Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for the presidency, a Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and did not shave from 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches.
G5w4 TIL that Lumber Liquidators illegally imports wood harvested from Siberian Tiger habitat via China.
EP0P TIL that when Fiat discovered a Google’s street view car was mapping Sodertalje, Sweden, they sent a Fiat to tail it for 30 miles, and have it captured on street view in front of Volkswagen’s headquarters.
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
yVNOp TIL when the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impacted the Moon, the impact was picked up by seismometers put in place during Apollo 12.