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TIL in 2017 an expert in child development and a music psychologist researched what noises and music would delight and hold the attention of babies. They then teamed up with a Grammy award winning musician to produce a song based on that research. It is called "The Happy Song".

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yVLkv TIL that getting water from a war zone (the DMZ) is approved by the South Korean military.
694XX TIL that Samuel Jackson asked for his character (Mace Windu) to have a purple light saber. Although he initially rejected it, George Lucas later caved in, making Mace the first character to break the basic colour rule of the light sabers.
5V0jB TIL Pythagoras was a vegetarian. He believed that killing and eating animals sullied the soul and prevented union with a higher form of reality. Additionally, he felt that eating meat was unhealthy and made humans wage war against one another.
5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.
naN9 TIL a couple were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter after their pet Burmese python escaped its cage and squeezed their two year old daughter to death.