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TIL that the game-opening jingle to Konami's 1981 Sega arcade classic "Frogger" was based on an existing real song INU NO OMAWARISAN (犬のおまわりさん) composed by Yoshimi Satō in 1960.

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p8gxQ TIL about "Operation Moolah", which offered large cash rewards to North Korean pilots who defected with an intact MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the only defector who ever met the conditions, No Kum-sok, was unaware of the offer. He was still paid $100,000 ($967,289 in today's money).
x6X15 TIL: A Yellow Fever Epidemic Killed One in Every Ten Philadelphians in 1793
WXLo TIL that “the deepest man on earth” can dive to depths of up to 831 ft. without a breathing apparatus.
pNnN TIL Bishop Rock is a tiny island 4 miles off the coast of Cornwall, and its single lighthouse makes it the “world’s smallest island with a building on it”
gLBb TIL The British Army considered (and attempted) training seagulls to poo on enemy submarines periscopes before realising that seagulls don’t fly that far out to sea.