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TIL They Might Be Giants originally wrote "Boss of Me," the theme song for "Malcolm in the Middle," with the chorus "Who's gonna guess the dead guy in the envelope" for a Philadelphia radio station contest.

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pBpp TIL Bob Dylan missed Woodstock, after being invited, because he didn’t like hippies.
7ryrb TIL that during WWII, in the Philippines, Rod Serling and his platoon were watching platoon member Melvin Levy deliver a comic monologue when a supply crate dropped from above and decapitated Levy. One version of the story has the two men posing for a picture when it happened.
VOEp TIL: Researchers at Bell Labs developed radio astronomy, UNIX, C, C++, Plan 9, Inferno, the transistor, the laser, the first practical solar cell, and wireless LAN.
lopD1 TIL there is a scientific journal called “Combustion and Flame”
XED68 TIL Killer-whale mothers often stay with their adult sons for their entire lives, sharing their prey and knowledge, & that the mother's might also play a direct role in fostering mating opportunities. They really want grand children.