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TIL that despite being under 3 ½ minutes long, “Birdhouse in Your Soul”, by They Might Be Giants changes key 18 times.

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x67yk TIL in 1978 Richard Branson tried to get DEVO to make John Lydon(Johnny Rotten) their lead singer. Obviously they declined…
7rOVO TIL that the patient in the National Geographic best picture of 1987 depicting the famous 23hrs heart transplantation which shows the Doctor monitoring his vitals while the assistant rests in the corner not only survived but outlived the doctor.
kJVee TIL About USS The Sullivans - The first ship in the Navy named after more than one person. It was named after 5 brothers who were killed when their ship was torpedoed in WWII, an event that led to the policy portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. USS The Sullivans itself sunk in 2022 as a museum ship.
X00p8 TIL that Spongebob Squarepants is the species of sponge known as Aplysina fistularis or "yellow tube sponge"
Z8e0D TIL that stagecoaches were called so because they travelled in small "stages" of 10-15 miles