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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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po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia
AkDl TIL Cluster Headaches : Some doctors and scientists have described the pain resulting from ‘Cluster Headaches’ as the most intense pain a human can endure - worse than burns, broken bones or child birth.
YpjnG TIL about the Battle of Manila Bay (1898) which was a decisive victory for the US Navy where they sunk all seven Spanish cruisers plus a transport ship and only lost one American life: Chief Engineer Francis B. Randall, who died of a heart attack.
0AXM TIL a German mathematician spent a decade writing a 200 page manuscript about drawing a regular 65537 sided polygon with a compass and a straightedge
XEGl6 TIL 4 year old kids ask up to 400 questions in one day!