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TIL John Williams composed the original theme for Gilligan's Island

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J11r1 TIL that Marie Currie kept vials of radium in her pockets and next to her bed because she liked the glow. Now, more than 80 years since her death, the body of Marie Curie is still radioactive.
0ddYN TIL in 2009 British people rebelled against the ongoing trend of X Factor victors winning Christmas number one by purchasing copies of Rage Against the Machine
XLYD TIL the CEO of McDonald’s makes the same pay in an hour as a worker does at $8.25 in four months
97yB TIL that scholar Theodore Roszak believes that a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Fixed to meet rules)
R7Va9 TIL Jon Stewart was a talented college soccer player who scored the only goal in a key game leading to the NCAA tournament.