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TIL a US Vice President and Nobel Laureate has a hit single "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards with the original melody having been composed by then future-VP Charles G. Dawes

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oREA TIL Mike Rowe (host of Dirty Jobs) was a professional opera singer
Me41K TIL that same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death in Iran, but Iranians can get a state-sponsored sex change operation to avoid punishment. Iran performs more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.
0w9vR TIL That chickens are used to detect diseases that spread via mosquito. They don’t get ill from the diseases and don’t develop high enough levels of the diseases to spread them, but the we can still check for the diseases in their blood. They are also called ‘Sentinel Chickens.’
PYPye TIL that some black cats have recessive genes that make them look a different color under sunlight. Cats with the B gene will look black, b gene will look chocolate, and b' gene will look cinnamon. Spending too long under sunlight may start "rusting" and the cat will look that way on the shade too.
OGxb4 TIL that a Japanese pilot - Nobuo Fujita bombed the US mainland during WWII (the only foreign pilot to bomb the US Mainland) and was later invited back to where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship.