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TIL a cure for earworms (having a song stuck in your head) is to listen to Karma Chameleon or God Save the Queen

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PeZG TIL Branden Lee was originally cast as Johnny Cage in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, until he died while filming The Crow
MeDA7 TIL that the ash from coal power plants contains uranium & thorium and carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
Mg58 TIL that even though the Hindenburg was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas, it had a smoking room
neeg9 TIL that Lieutenant Paul Stamets in the new Star Trek: Discovery is based on a real American mycologist.
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.