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TIL in the Beatles song Let it Be, "Mother Mary" is actually not a reference to the Virgin Mary. It instead refers to Paul's actual mother, Mary, who died when he was young. The song was inspired by a dream in which she gave him the advice "It will be all right, just let it be".

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b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.
OM44 TIL that even today, 68 years after the end of WWII, barely a week goes by without an unexploded bomb from WWII being found somewhere in Germany.
yQEov TIL Tim Curry, a lifelong Scooby-Doo fan, was offered the villain role in the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie, but turned it down after learning the film would include Scrappy-Doo, a character he disliked.
XEkJ8 TIL in 2014 researchers in the U.k developed an app called, "Spider in da house", which helped identify house spiders. They discovered the peak month of spiders moving indoors is September and most are males seeking mates.
R74a1 TIL that where your tongue sits at rest depends on your native language. If it’s English, your tongue rests at the roof of your mouth, behind your upper teeth. However, if your first language is Russian or German, your tongue rests at the bottom of your mouth, behind the lower teeth, when not in use