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TIL the brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, was important to both Egyptians and Polynesians, serving as a predictor of the Nile’s upcoming flood season and a key point for navigating the South Pacific islands

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4k9va TIL about Typhoon Cobra, a category 5 Typhoon that killed 790 US sailors in the South Pacific Fleet in 1944
KYg5R TIL that both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the Founding Fathers of the United States and later Presidents, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
MRga TIL: “Memes” are a scientific term for memetics and basically categorized as mental “virus” or “parasites” where they “infect” hosts to spread self replicating ideas…
wLZbo TIL That famed music composer, Danny Elfman, is also the singing voice of Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas
7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.