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TIL Buzz Lightyear was originally named Lunar Larry

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a8eao 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.
gwV9 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”.
nW0O9 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.
ANkaw TIL in 2021 music sales finally returned to the same level as their historical peak, which was in 1999.
l7D67 TIL that due to time-zones, Earth has 26 hours a day