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TIL Snoop Dogg has released a lullaby album which features 12 of his hits made kid-friendly in partnership with Rockabye Baby! Music, including: "Gin and Juice," "Drop It Like It's Hot," "Sensual Seduction," and "Snoop's Upside Ya Head."

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kOD5W TIL that the word "Pompatus" used by Steve Miller in "The Joker" was made up by him
WRjY TIL a white flag is not actually a sign of surrender for boats at sea. It’s just a request to communicate. Taking your flag down is the universal sign of surrender.
xek7 TIL Football and Football are both called such because neither is played on horseback.
Oo7nR TIL about the ongoing research to make human hibernation possible. It could change the treatment of inflammatory diseases, insomnia, and trauma and will be useful for space travel.
akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.