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TIL - The Indiana Jones theme has secret lyrics

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47La TIL that the infamous “Florida Man” phenomenon is caused by the state’s transparency laws, which give the media access to all arrest reports.
EgZr0 TIL Ramanujan’s work has been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. Researchers are still discovering mere comments in his mathematical writings turning out to be profound that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death.
rL51 TIL that Kermit The Frog is left handed. (This is true of most Muppets. A puppeteer usually operates the puppet’s head and mouth with his or her dominant hand while the other hand operates the puppet’s hand or arm. Since most people are right-handed, most Muppets are left-handed.)
vYVD TIL Ray Bradbury originally titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but he & editors found the name boring so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature book paper burnt at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold, burnt a book, and reported that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”
rKrd TIL Japan and the Soviet Union fought a major battle in Mongolia in 1939. The Japanese defeat convinced them to maintain a truce with the USSR during most of WW2