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nWmVB TIL the “his” in the song “Killing Me Softly With His Song” refers to Don McLean. The original performer was deeply moved hearing him perform in the early 70’s.
0wQVL TIL the US had nuclear-armed suicide commandos called Green Light Teams
WONY TIL Eiffel Tower designer Gustave Eiffel included a ‘secret’ apartment for himself near the top!
lo6DA TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war isn’t actually a jellyfish, but a colony of individual organisms called zooids, each with a different function within the ‘body’
rexo TIL that until 1990, there was a McDonald’s store that operated outside the control of McDonalds corporation. It was franchised by the original McDonald brothers, and was completely independent.