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TIL The only Beatles song to feature a drum solo by Ringo was 'The End', the last song recorded by all four band members.

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bX4Z TIL that “the” is pronounced as “thee” when before a vowel sound, as opposed to “thuh”
4nNN TIL that after the film Top Gun was released, enlistment into the Navy more than tripled. The Navy even set up recruitment booths inside theaters showing Top Gun.
porA TIL multilinguals who speak two or more languages change their personality when they change language.
mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.
4Qg6 TIL Your eye’s pupil got its name from Latin “Pupilla”, which means little doll. Because that’s what you see when you look into someones pupil, the little doll version of yourself.