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TIL Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Ever Discovered

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8y1L TIL someone took all the details from the Ice Cube song Today Was a Good Day to figure out which day it took place on and the song took place on January 20th, 1992.
W7peo TIL that the founder of Post Cereal (C.W. Post) spent time at the sanitarium run by Dr. John Kellogg (of Cornflake fame), and was inspired to make his first product (a cereal-based drink called Postum) because he hated the coffee there.
mxgrR TIL The bowler hat was the most popular in the American West, prompting Lucius Beebe to call the bowler, "the hat that won the West". The cowboy hat derives from the "Boss of the Plains" hat which was manufactured by J.B. Stetson in 1865 and was marketed to cowboys as a durable success symbol.
69NJZ TIL that The Beach Boys didn't actually use the theremin (the instrument that makes the oooeeeoooo sound) in Good Vibrations, due to it being notoriously difficult to play. Instead they used a simplified version
XEXlk TIL that some people can see into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum when they have their lens removed from cataracts (called aphakia), and that UV color is described as a pale whitish-blue. This is why Claude Monet, who became aphakic, began painting w/ more blue post-surgery! Weird!!