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TIL Thousands of prisoners were abandoned in Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricane Katrina where the water and sewage rose up to neck deep. They went days without food, water or ventilation.

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woe9o TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.
VBGpZ TIL: That when recording "I Feel Fine", the Beatles had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes, such as electronic goofs, twisted tapes and talkback. "I Feel Fine" marks one of the earliest examples of the the use of feedback as a recording technique.
jNYGE TIL House Sparrows and other birds have been known to use shopping carts as Trojan Horses to enter stores.
mxj8y TIL that The Who’s Roger Daltrey is allergic to cannabis, which affects his singing. On one occasion he threatened to stop a show due to people smoking, advising them to “stick it up your fuckin’ ass.”
kOG6m TIL Before Chesley Sullenberger and The Miracle on the Hudson Capt. Carlos Dardano landed a 737 on a narrow levee in New Orleans after the engines flamed out in a rainstorm in 1988. Capt. Dardano also only had one eye from when his plane was shot at during the civil war in El Salvador.