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TIL Eric Clapton played the guitar solo on the Beatles classic, “While my guitar gently weeps”

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DQKwr TIL there was a math question on the 1982 SAT that every single test taker got wrong. The question was so paradoxical that the creators were confused and didn’t include the actual answer as part of the selection. All 300,000 exams had to be rescored.
9MeX TIL Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while high on LSD. The MLB refuses to release footage saying its “an embarrassment to the league”.
AaJx TIL: When Pete Conrad, who was somewhat shorter than Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the lunar surface during Apollo 12, his first words were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”
X6xE TIL Albert Einstein’s brains were kept and dissected both improperly and against his wishes, and his eye balls remain in a safe deposit box in New York City…
4kM6w TIL An aboriginal man with a tomahawk was the first Australian to capture a Japanese POW during WWII. He snuck up to a downed pilot and took him to the military base on a neighboring island.