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TIL - Phil Collins amazed Disney bosses when he agreed to sing his songs for the studio's films Tarzan and Brother Bear phonetically in a number of different languages.

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L5nr TIL the Ten commandments quoted by most people aren’t the ten commandments carved into the stone tablets by Moses according to the Bible. The actual Ten Commandments contain gems such as “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” and “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me.”
Zp7dD TIL of Tetragametic Chimerism, which occurs when a woman is pregnant with twins and one embryo dies, and the other embryo absorbs the twin's cells. Also it's potential impact on DNA tests, which lead to Lydia Fairchild being accused of fraud and not being the biological mother of her children.
JPD1 TIL . There is no Beatles music on the Voyager (Interstellar Spacecraft) Golden Record because EMI said no.
vPjRx TIL Lobsters can be right- or left-handed – or clawed. When larval lobster settle to the bottom, their claws are identical. But within several molts, the claws become specialized. They also have clear blood that turns blue when exposed to air, due to oxidizing copper in the hemocyanin protein.
69Ejl TIL the Big Mac was created to compete with the Big Boy. Its two prior names before its current name was created by a 21-year-old advertising secretary, Esther Glickstein Rose. First was the Aristocrat, dropped as it was hard to pronounce, then the Blue Ribbon Burger. McDonald's settled on Big Mac.