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TIL Rick Springfield found himself crushing on a girl that was dating his friend Gary, who he had become friends with while taking a stained glass-making class in Pasadena. Renaming his friend "Jessie" gave him the 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl", as "Gary's Girl" didn't have the same ring to it.

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N7AMe TIL that Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator, used kindness and subterfuge to interrogate his charges. Hans created a bond with captured Allied pilots. His stratagem was subtle and calculated, and he never resorted to hurting any of the people with whom he came into contact
mxlVR TIL In 2014 London Black Cabs protested against Uber by bringing gridlock across central London. Instead of damaging Uber, it brought a 850% increase in downloads of the app and hastened the black cabs decline.
neGd7 TIL there is a big difference in asking for “Everything” and “All The Way” when it comes to ordering toppings on your hotdog/hamburger and there’s slight variations of what that means all over the country.
A5A7 TIL the Bell Rock, a reef in the North Sea, had been responsible for thousands of shipwrecks over the centuries, that is until 1807 when an engineer began the “impossible” construction of a lighthouse on the reef itself. Ever since its completion, the Bell Rock hadn’t claimed a single human life.
lopPN TIL that the sound you hear with WW2 planes diving was caused by a siren fitted to the German planes to scare ground infantry