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TIL when the Beatles wrote the song “With a Little Help from My Friends”, the first line ended with ‘What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would You Throw Ripe Tomatoes at Me?’, but Ringo changed it so that fans would not throw tomatoes at him should he perform it live.

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4M6R TIL The United States stands Alone With South Sudan as the Only Two Countries in the World That Have Not Signed The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Primarily Because it Forbids Execution and Life Imprisonment for Minors
KOxQa TIL that there is a depiction of the Prophet Muhammed showing his face on the US Supreme Court north wall frieze. He is depicted among other "great lawgivers" of history (like Hammurabi and Napoleon) and depicted with the Quran and a sword
6EVXX TIL that Singapore Airlines has a "Corpse Cupboard", a cupboad used to store the body of anyone that dies on one of their flights.
KO8Jw TIL Members of a chimpanzee troop in Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them as hunting tools.
me9E TIL there is a tree which produces white flowers which are infamous for smelling exactly like semen