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TIL when Blink 182 recorded Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, their manager said there was no 'good-time summer anthem', Tom and Mark responded 'You want a fucking single? I'll write you the cheesiest catchiest throwaway fucking summertime single youve ever heard!" and wrote The Rock Show in 10 mins

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W7JgL TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless Quaker who preached in the late 1700’s-early 1800’s
ZbKG TIL that 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas went to Brazil, six or seven times that of the United States.
W7xd TIL that Don Francisco, the host of Univision’s Sabado Gigante for 50 years, is actually a German Jew. (Happy 50th, Sabado Gigante!)
9d4D TIL that it is possible for a human to become a Chimera by fusing with his/her fraternal twin in the womb. If it occurs early enough, each twin will claim body parts as his/her own, allowing a single person to be made up of two genetically different individuals.
DQERg TIL: that Laz Alondo lost 40 pounds for season 4 of The Boys".