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TIL John "Scatman" Larkin Referenced Stuttering in His Hit Songs Due to Him Having a Severe Stutter That Didn't Appear When He Sang.

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78n7r TIL Kermit the Frog's name in most of Hispanic America is la rana René (René the Frog), while in Spain, he is named Gustavo.
8eXpL TIL that a very bright Pulsar, NGC 5907 X-1 was discovered on February 21, 2017. For the time, it broke two records, brightest, and farthest.
lZdN TIL the inverted cross only became associated with Satan in the 19th Century when a French cult leader was accused of holding erotic Black Masses. He believed the inverted crucifix symbolised the ‘Reign of Love’ as opposed to the 'Reign of Suffering’ of the traditional cross
wJnJ TIL that when the author of Mary Poppins died she was such a miserable person that even her grandchildren reported that she “died loving no one and with no one loving her.”
6oZX TIL that, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier from World War II, never surrendered when the war ended, and continued to fight in the Philippines till 1974, when a student found his former CO and got him to convince Onoda to surrender.