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TIL the Phineas & Ferb show introduction is performed by Bowling for Soup.

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4bj5 TIL about the 1918 public lynching of Mary Turner. Turner (8 months pregnant) was hung upside down and set on fire. While still alive, her abdomen was cut open, causing her child to fall to the ground where she watched the lynch mob stomp him to death.
vPYrD TIL that the tab on your rear view mirror can be flipped for night time driving.
1av08 TIL legend has it that when Julius Caesar was born, they had to cut open his mother’s womb to deliver him. That’s why the modern surgery is called a Caesarian section.
jNRMR TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.
b6mY4 TIL the song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is about a 1971 incident at a Frank Zappa concert at Montreaux Casino where an audience member fired a flare into the ceiling causing a fire that destroyed the venue.