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TIL that this is the song that eventually became the James Bond theme.

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8aa6L TIL Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb. He merely improved Joseph Swan’s design which had been patented 10 years before Edison. Swan sued Edison for patent infringement and won.
xgrb TIL A Mumbai thief was force-fed 48 bananas to make him excrete a stolen gold chain.
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