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TIL Buzz Lightyear was originally named Lunar Larry
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TIL about Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist, who falsely announced his death in 1999 to create publicity for a following "resurrection concert". He then died in 2000.
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TIL, In 2 AD, the Roman poet Ovid published a series of poems that taught men relationship advice such as “‘not forgetting her birthday” and “not asking about her age”.
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TIL Dr. Benjamin Spock’s best selling childcare book was the first to promote prone sleeping for infants & continued to 9 years after it was shown to increased SIDS prevalence. It’s estimated over 60K infant deaths worldwide can be attributed to harmful prone sleeping recommendation.
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TIL in 2021 music sales finally returned to the same level as their historical peak, which was in 1999.
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TIL that due to time-zones, Earth has 26 hours a day