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TIL That in 2007 David Letterman became so obsessed with the Michael Martin Murphey song "Wildfire", discussing and dissecting the lyrics with Paul Schaffer among other things, that it culminated in the then 62 year old Murphey being invited to perform the song on "Late Night".

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rKX4 TIL the Emerald Cockroach Wasp injects venom into a specific part of a cockroaches brain to stop its escape/survival instinct response, lays an egg in it’s abdomen, then its larva eats the organs in a specific way to keep the roach alive before it cocoons and leaves its body.
GXZQ TIL that there is an opera being developed for Broadway that is the telling of Jesus’s life using only Britney Spears songs
RaJ6 TIL Scuba divers use Magna Doodles to pass notes underwater
nWvR7 TIL Humans will naturally begin to walk in circles when they can't tell what direction is straight, and there is no agreed on explanation for this
D1aoe TIL that New Zealander Nigel Richards memorised the French dictionary and won a French Scrabble competition. He does not speak French at all.