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TIL The Cartoon X-Men theme was lifted from Hermeto Pascoal

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RLv6 TIL in 2005 the band Bloodhound Gang wrote a song where the lyrics consist of lines said by Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons
pYep4 TIL that the Sojourner Mars rover is named after African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth through an essay contest and not because it was a temporary traveler, or sojourner, to Mars.
NlvE TIL If you see a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb, you’re supposed to stick your arm out and hold your thumb over the cloud. If the cloud is bigger than your thumb you are in the radiation zone and should evacuate.
78ZwO TIL in 1951, 600 British soldiers were getting overwhelmed by 30,000 Chinese soldiers. Brig Tom Brodie told his American Superior "Things are a bit sticky, sir." Because of the understatement, the General assumed they were holding up and sent no help. Almost all the soldiers were captured or killed.
QJNdd Misleading by "telling the truth" is so pervasive in daily life that a new term has recently been coined to describe it: paltering.