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TIL Hanson's hit "MMMBop" was originally recorded as a slower, gloomier doo-wop influenced song. It was only after producer Steve Greenberg heard Beck’s album "Odelay", he enlisted The Dust Brothers to rework the song as we know it.

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1WE8 TIL during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
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