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TIL 'Could It Be Magic' by Barry Manilow, and also recorded by Donna Summer and Take That, is based on a piece by Chopin.

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KGKJ TIL Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American in space on 9/11/01, where he witnessed the damage to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon from a completely unique vantage point.
ne1nW TIL the real reason why the 2003 hit “Elf” never made a sequel is because the star of the movie, Will Ferrell, did not get along with the director of the movie, Jon Favreau. It was fellow actor, James Caan, who spilled the beans and revealed the truth of the matter.
l7ol1 TIL the NCAA Final Four has been held in New Orleans 5 times. The only school to win more than once was North Carolina, who won in 1982 (James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins) and 1993 (Eric Montross)
7rbwL TIL upon sending his son, who worried about his ability to hold his own amid experienced and eminent statesmen and diplomats, to the negotiation that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, a Swedish statesman famously told him:"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
Oopbe TIL that the USS Arizona and USS Utah, two ships which were both destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, still continue to leak oil over 80 years later