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TIL Bill Murray attended the musical version of Groundhog Day twice in a row.

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ZpVXG TIL there is a Clutter Index which is used in diagnosing hoarding disorders
P99g TIL there is a neural condition called witzelsucht that causes people to speak in puns!
9wgKr TIL of Botswana's real life Lion King. A Lion with such a fierce hatred and vendetta against Hyenas, they named him Ntwadumela - He Who Greets With Fire. He was even witnessed having charged an angry Bull Elephant. Ntwadumela was tragicaly gunned down by trophy hunters in 1991.
kJorm TIL that after Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come" on The Tonight Show (Feb 7, 1964), the network lost the only recording of the performance. Cooke elected never to perform it again in his lifetime (he was murdered in Dec of '64), due to the song's complexity and ominous nature.
DVRY TIL that Merriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame, committed suicide three years after the great American expedition.