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TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was psychologically scarred by his failure to complete "Smile", the band's follow-up to 1966's "Pet Sounds". After he premiered the finished album in 2004, to a 10-minute standing ovation, he rocked back and forth on-stage, exclaiming to a band mate: "We did it!"

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698Nw TIL The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume. It’s believed to be from a T-Rex.
ykMX TIL, Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the ends of two of his fretting fingers at the age of 17. He fashioned his own prosthetics and went on to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
6Ewbl TIL that in 2019 there was a sixth Terminator movie (after Terminator: Genysis) which so few people saw that that it was even less successful than Terminator: Genysis. The film grossed only 13% of what was needed to break even and was considered a box office bomb due to lukewarm critical reception.
mxxMY TIL out of the 5 major nuclear powers (NPT): US, UK, France, Russia and China, only China has pledged a 'No First Use' policy whereas the other four have agreed to reserve the right to use nuclear first-strikes as defensive deterrents.
6QPX TIL that U.S. schoolchildren used to say the Pledge of Allegiance using the “Bellamy salute” (more recognizably the salute used by Hitler and the Nazis). In order to prevent further confusion or controversy, US Congress instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture.