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TIL of Mike McGear, real name Mike McCartney, the younger brother of Sir Paul McCartney who set out on his own musical career four years after the Beatles' first hit

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awlRb TIL that songwriter Robert Sherman was struggling to write a catchy song for Julie Andrews to sing in Mary Poppins. When Robert's son received the polio inoculation, and he discovered the medicine was put on a sugar cube, he was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down."
x61R0 TIL about GRB 080319B: a gamma ray burst that is the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe and farthest object observable with the naked eye. It would be 21 quadrillion times brighter than the sun.
Jpj8 TIL Guinness could really be good for you: A pint of Guinness may work as well as a low dose aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.
7rBOX TIL While under hypnosis, Betty Hill told of being shown a star map by one of her alien captors. Years later, she sketched what she remembered of the map and determined Zeta Reticuli was where the spacecraft originated from
AEBa TIL of Clair Engle, a US Senator who was left unable to speak because of a brain tumor. In 1964, when the Senate voted on whether or not to break the filibuster on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he pointed to his eye, signaling his vote in favor of ending the filibuster (“aye”).