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nWrWd TIL Fozzy's first two albums (featuring mostly covers) were supposed to be satire, based on the spoof that the band were megastars who had been touring in Japan for the past 20 years only to find that their biggest hits had been "ripped off" by other rock bands
M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.
1lYX TIL Hyenas are more closely related to felines than canines.
5YJ9r TIL that Abraham Lincoln, at 32, fell into a depression so profound that his friends feared he might kill himself, because of the injustice he felt he had done to his wife by having a love affaire with another woman. Lincoln: "I am now the most miserable man living. ... I must die or be be better"
KOQaJ TIL that Steve Irwin was a voice actor in Happy Feet. He voiced the elephant seal named Trev.