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TIL Sting sang backup vocals on the Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"

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J1Yll TIL that before 1986 professional athletes were not allow to compete at the Olympic Games.
Np9M TIL that prairie dogs construct their burrows in such a way that wind blowing parallel to the ground induces flow of air through the burrows–renewing oxygen supplies underground.
Rkl1 TIL that the predominant flavor of maraschino cherries is actually almond, not cherry
woVP6 TIL Shari Lewis of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Lambchop fame co-wrote an episode of Star Trek.
xVXlg TIL that before the British royal family was the Royal House of Windsor, they were the Royal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They changed the name to sound more British during WWI after a German air raid killed a class of schoolchildren in London, whipping up extreme anti-German sentiment in the UK.