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TIL that despite writing massive hits "All Shook Up", "Don't Be Cruel", "Return to Sender" and others, Otis Blackwell never met Elvis Presley in person.

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06GN TIL Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin only met one time, in which Joplin ended up smashing a bottle of whiskey on Morrison’s head after growing angry over his suggestive behavior toward her. Morrison was only more attracted to Joplin afterward and pursued her for weeks.
W7v18 TIL Aware of his own shortcomings in formal education, Abraham Lincoln mastered six books of Euclid’s Elements on his own in his early forties. Lincoln believed Euclid challenged him intellectually and made him into a better lawyer
ANQ5x TIL: Tequila in EU is protected designation of Mexico (United Mexican States)
0Lry TIL that a koi fish named “Hanako” was owned by several individuals over its lifetime and lived to be 225 years old.
j69JN TIL that nine year old John Clem enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War, shot a Confederate Colonel and was promoted to Sergeant by they age of 12, and retired at the rank of Major General in 1915.