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TIL the "Elo" in the Elo rating system is not an acronym but named after its creator, Arpad Elo.

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69Ab8 TIL that the man who discovered Jimi Hendrix and later managed him, was musician Chas Chandler, who played bass guitar on the Animals’ 1964 rendition of "House of the Rising Sun".
E1deP TIL that it takes four or five generations of monarch butterflies to complete the annual migration from Mexico to northern USA/Canada in the spring but in the fall a single "super generation" completes the entire 3,000 mile journey.
8eeO4 TIL That "Barker’s Beauties," the models on The Price is Right, did not have contracts, but were were rehired on a week-to-week basis to keep their salaries low.
Avyl TIL not long before his death, Freddie Mercury, confined to his bed, got to see an advance copy of the “Wayne’s World” scene with Wayne and Garth headbanging to “Bohemian Rhapsody”. He loved it and approved of the song’s use in the film. The movie, in part, helped launch Queen’s comeback in the USA
kO1wB TIL that Beretta, the maker of the famous Beretta 92 9mm pistol, was founded in 1526 and has supplied arms to every major European war since 1650