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TIL that many of Pompeii's residents survived the volcanic eruption -- evidence includes empty stables, empty safes, and hundreds of the unique names of Pompeii families found later in neighboring communities' records

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R7Oaa TIL that “glitch” is a Yiddish word. It was in use in the 1940s by radio announcers to indicate an on-air mistake. By the 1950s, the term had migrated to television, where engineers used glitch to refer to technical problems
JY0wk TIL Humans have been depicting beekeeping in art for 40,000 years and it's now thought this development contributed to human brain capacity development to a similar degree that meat did.
oBOX7 Today I learned that Tame Impala was accused of plagiarizing South American pop early 90s icon "Pablito Ruiz"
4X TIL Danny DeVito did the voice of the Lorax in five different languages, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian.
69AMJ TIL just two of Dolly Parton’s songs (“Jolene” and “9 to 5”) gross about $6 million to $8 million per year in royalties