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TIL Fred Armisen was in a Chicago-based punk band called Trenchmouth

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KYZ8Q TIL that Sirius B, the smaller star of the Sirius binary system, has a little more mass than the Sun while being slightly smaller than the Earth.
gr9mL TIL about Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian composer, songwriter, and singer sometimes known as the "father of bossa nova". His 1965 album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with the single "Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", which became one of the most recorded songs of all time.
6EmYJ TIL Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The creek derives its name from the gases bubbling out of the riverbed from the decomposition of blood and entrails dumped into the river in the early 20th century by the local meatpacking businesses
nJ8W TIL that King George V was “euthanized” against his knowledge by his doctor, who injected him with morphine and cocaine to kill him. The doctor did this to make sure the King’s death would be in the morning paper and not a “lesser” publication
BrJgL TIL Nala, a beluga calf born to much fanfare one summer at the Vancouver Aquarium died a year later of a "bizarre" condition. Staff discovered that Nala had an abnormal pocket beneath her larynx, or voice box, which contained two stones and a penny