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TIL a music producer successfully pranked Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles to record the song Eternal Flame naked after convincing her that Olivia Newton-John recorded all her songs naked.

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5VxWn Today I Learned Schweppes, the Oldest Soft Drinks Company on the World, was the Official Drink of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Held at the Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, London.
R55yl TIL Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and eventual 14th Air Force Commander, built a brothel. "His men were going to visit brothels, regardless of what the rules said," and it was "better to have his "boys" visit a brothel that was regularly inspected to reduce venereal diseases."
eXEk TIL that people who eat spicy food have a reduced risk of dying from diseases like cancer, ischemic heart disease, and respiratory illness.
mxXvO TIL Penn & Teller helped design a video game in which the player must drive a bus from Tucson to Vegas in real-time; 8 hours of continuous play.
GBM5 TIL:Ernest Hemingway survived,anthrax,pneumonia, dysentery,diabetes,high blood pressure,two successive plane crashes that resulted in ruptured kidney and liver, broken skull, second degree burns, and numerous other accidents, then won the Nobel Prize in Literature and eventually committed suicide.