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TIL that Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” won every award it was nominated for

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v1K7R TIL that the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy" developed out of a conversation between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green talking about ways in which they could make people think we were crazy. CeeLo took the conversation, turned it into "Crazy" and recorded it in one take
kOPe1 TIL of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rare genetic disease that gradually turns your entire body into bone. Surgical removal of the bone only causes more bone to grow in its place.
m1K0x TIL in 1950 only 9 percent of American households had a television set, but by 1960 the figure had reached 90 percent.
krW TIL that H.G. Wells wrote the classic Sci-Fi novels; The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds in the space of just four years.
8grK TIL that dalmatians used to run alongside horse drawn firetrucks acting as a barking siren to clear crowds, thus their positive reputations with firefighters