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Today I learned that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was supposed to have been a Meat Loaf song.

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4XKvN TIL that in the 1930s, dust storms were so severe that the static electricity generated would arc from your body to the nearest metal object and knock you head-over-heels. Two men shaking hands could literally knock each other out.
KOmQR TIL there's skincare for fishes.
Q5Pp TIL that in “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” during the Black Knight battle, when the Black Knight is down to one leg left he is played by a real one legged man because John Cleese could not balance well on one leg.
0wMdN TIL that when they started Apple, the amount of memory to hold a song cost about a million dollars.
VBgDZ TIL it’s not a grain of sand that creates a pearl in an oyster, but rather a parasite