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TIL Brian May, guitarist for Queen, uses coins, especially the English sixpence, as guitar picks.

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Mpa0 TIL The night before the Olympic final, Michael Jordan apparently spent the night drinking and gambling all night, then he went on a long day of press appearances, plus 18 holes of golf in Barcelona, before he went on to lead Team USA in a gold-medal winning victory over Croatia.
VBmy0 TIL one of the co-writers for the song “Rock around the Clock”, first rock song to reach #1 on the Billboard chart was born in the 19th century.
rXXy TIL that when Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) announced Japan’s surrender on the radio (Aug. 15, 1945), it was the first time his voice was heard by the Japanese people
QJ4bd TIL that on April Fool's Day in 1974, a man in Alaska pranked an entire town by setting a bunch of tiles alight in a dormant volcano, creating a smoke plume that caused a lot of commotion and ended up with a US Coast Guard helicopter being sent to investigate.
78oYZ TIL Elvis’s promoter came up with and sold “I Hate Elvis” buttons. Therefore they both made money from Elvis haters too.