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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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XE6r TIL an edition of “Where’s Waldo?” is banned in many places because of it showing a woman’s exposed breast in the scene “On the Beach”.
16Jw8 TIL the historical meridian marker in Greenwich is actually off by about 100 metres because the unevenness in the mass of the Earth bends the light of the stars that were used to calculate it
dDWm9 TIL the vultures in the everglades are attracted to the rubber on cars and so the park offers tarps and bungees to anyone visiting as a means of protection.
a8rX0 TIL the Instrument of Government and the Humble Petition and Advice were the only codified constitutions of England
kOgxE TIL The anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin was a military officer turned geologist. In 1871 Kropotkin explored the glacial deposits of Finland and Sweden. In 1873, he published a map and paper in which he showed that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.