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TIL Jason Schwartzman is also a musician and created this well known song

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5VJX8 TIL that the counterpart to a giant painted mural in Biddeford, Maine [depicting a young boy making a phone call] is located in Slemani, Iraq. The project, facilitated by fifth-grade students from both countries, aimed to encourage cross-cultural bridge-building as a means of empathy and friendship.
b6PnQ TIL that Richard of Shrewsbury (the younger of the two princes in the tower) had been married and widowed before his disappearance at age 9.
9MEG TIL that in a UC Berkeley study, where a game of Monopoly was rigged so that one player started with twice the money, the advantaged player tended to contribute their inevitable victory to the decisions they made in the game rather than their initial advantage.
rdVW TIL woodlice (aka rolly-polies or pillbugs) are not insects but rather a kind of terrestrial crustacean
A50l TIL when news of JFK’s assassination was announced in Alabama public schools (which JFK had forced to desegregate 6 months earlier), many white students cheered.