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TIL Green Day started working on American Idiot after the master tapes of their previously planned album were stolen and they decided to start from scratch

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Erkx TIL Records show that 50,000 American soldiers deserted in the European theater during World War II
xoL0 TIL that Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell gave their entire salaries from the movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassius” to Heath Ledger’s daughter.
5VdDP TIL the piña colada's creation/origin is hotly contested and claimed by the restaurant Barrachina (in 1963) and the Caribe Hilton Hotel (in 1954), both located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, a cocktail book by a London Hotel included the drink. This book was published in 1930.
Z8gED TIL: Milk Protein (Casein) can be used to to make plastic. galalith & lanital being two types and experiments are continuing to find more uses for it in building & products.
xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.