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TIL Eddie Vedder snuck backstage during Bad Religion's shows and ended up being a backup vocalist on their albums

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9wVBp TIL: you can buy smart condoms that track your “performance”
gM7Ny TIL of the USS Yorktown. A US navy ship that was left "dead in the water" after a member of the crew accidentally tried to divide by 0 on it's computers. This caused many of the ship's computer systems to crash, including propulsion resulting in it needing towing back to port.
yY8M TIL Poor white southerners in American South, who were viewed in the North as lazy and stupid, were actually victim to a hookworm epidemic that turned them into listless imbeciles. Up to 40% were infected in the early 1900s.
y8ZX TIL in 2007 a report was published in Ireland which stated that over half of Ireland’s native gypsy population - called Travellers - do not live past the age of 39 years.
Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”