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TIL Hans Zimmer composed the Skylanders theme

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9gwX TIL After making an emergency landing in China in 2001, the crew of a US Spy Plane were asked by their Chinese captors to recite the lyrics to “Hotel California” to prove their nationality.
Y77ZB TIL that “Huckberry Finn” was one of the most frequently banned books in the 1990s for “obscenity, atheism, bad grammar, coarse manners, low moral tone, and antisouthernism”.
KY9a4 TIL: Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy
ybDp TIL only 345 American deaths in the Spanish-American War were due to combat, 88% of all American deaths were due to disease. More than 62,000 people died from disease over the course of the war.
awx1M TIL of “Black Monday” which was a stock market crash in 1987. The Dow Jones fell 22.6% and worldwide losses were estimated at $1.7 trillion.