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TIL Smelly Cat from Friends had a music video

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7rGVL TIL of the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. Begun in 1921, it honors servicemen and women whose remains were never returned or found. Also, its sentinels do not wear their name plates or ranks on their uniforms out of respect for the fallen comrades
kOpjd TIL that most of the time the dysfunctional kidneys stay inside the recipient during a kidney transplant. The donor kidney is implanted in the pelvic region.
7p4Z TIL a band bought $20k worth of their own tickets from ticketmaster and sold them back to fans at face value eating all the ticketmaster extortion fees.
OoXBR TIL that "In God We Trust" was not the US's national motto, nor was it present in the pledge or all currency until the 1950s. It was added largely as opposition to atheistic beliefs in the USSR during the cold war.
DMRP TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic