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TIL Before becoming an international sensation The Beatles were rejected by Decca records because their executives thought guitar groups are on the way out.

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JZ4m TIL during filming of the 1970 movie Maidstone.. actor Rip Torn hit author/director Norman Mailer over the head with a hammer which resulted in an actual fight with Mailer biting off part of Rip Torns ear & Rip nearly choking Mailer to death… The fight was kept in the final cut of the movie
gMbr8 TIL the John Lennon-commissioned documentary "Did Britain Murder Hanratty" was only publically shown once, in 1970.
P1jQL TIL that Israel and Argentina are the only countries where McDonald’s grills their hamburgers over charcoal instead of using a flat-top griddle.
gMwob TIL about microbursts. A microburst is created by a column of sinking air that after hitting ground level, spreads out in all directions and is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 240 km/h (150 mph)
Wab4 TIL that the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea paint their shields with images of the Phantom comic book character after American GIs shared their comic books with tribe members during World War II