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TIL The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were initially known as Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem.

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ewW5 TIL: Viggo Mortensen bonded with the horse he rode in Lord of the Rings so be bought it from the owner.
6OE8 TIL the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs. EMP” so that the people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by fiction.
bDW0 TIL Nolan Ryan is the only pitcher in MLB history to have struck out seven pairs of fathers and sons.
evL5 TIL Johnny Rotten, from the Sex Pistols, was a defendant in a Judge Judy episode.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]