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TIL that when Jim Hendrix first performed in front of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, comments included “shit”, “Jesus”, and “damn”

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oBwoE TIL there is a Sake in Japan called Kuchikamizake made out of the saliva of virginal girls and rice.
XELmX TIL that during a 1973 Rolling Stones tour of Australia Keith Richards lived with a single mother and her son for a week, taking care of the baby while the mother was at work stating that "There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know I wiped his ass.".
Mewna TIL of Charles O'Rear, a photographer who snapped the famous grassy hill (Bliss) image used as the default background for Windows XP. Another photo of his, "Full Moon over Red Dunes," was also considered for the default, yet was denied because testers thought the sand dunes resembled buttcheeks.
R9X7 TIL The President’s speech in Independence Day was filmed on 6 August 1995 in front of an old aeroplane hangar. The hangar once housed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 August 1945.
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers