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TIL that not even the Baha Men know the lyrics to the rap part of “Who Let The Dogs Out.”

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DQAmr TIL of a less famous battle at Thermopylae where the Gauls beat the Greeks at 279BC
pYxvG TIL Dr. No, not James Bond, was the first character to say "Shaken, not stirred" onscreen
nelgW TIL a Chinese method of popcorn-making involves heating kernels in a large cast-iron canister that is then sealed with a heavy lid and turned over a fire rotisserie-style. When the canister is removed from the fire, the seal is released and, with a huge sonic boom, all the kernels explode at once.
KOn4Q TIL In Kaziranga, a national park in north-eastern India rangers can shoot and kill poachers to protect the Indian one-horned rhinoceros with legal immunity, reducing rhino poaching.
gMNA7 TIL that 'Star Spangled Banner' only became the anthem of the USA in 1931, after the huge outcry caused by Robert Ripley, who denounced in one of his famous "Believe it or Not" cartoons that the country, in fact, had no official anthem up until then.