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TIL Kylie Minogue released a cover of "The Loco-Motion" in 1988

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Op76 TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was “the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.”
wLdQY TIL of John Kissinger, who volunteered for the yellow fever experiments in 1900 and refused payment, stating that his actions "were solely in the interest of humanity and the cause of science"
N7X8b TIL there is an argument that The Beatles were the major influence is the downfall of the Soviet Union, in that they alienated a whole generation from their Communist motherland, becoming another religion to tens of millions of Soviet youngsters.
j0yR TIL The Count of Monte Cristo has never been out of print in most modern languages
VEXZ TIL that in the middle ages, devil fearing christians would massacre black cats, which carried the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population and the spread of the Black Death