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TIL Key and Peele are in Weird Al’s White and Nerdy

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VxKG TIL that during Vietnam, the US would play a soundtrack listed as the ‘Ghost tape’. It would play funeral songs and voices supposedly from the dead warning the soldiers to surrender or suffer the same fate.
kJbB TIL that Nazi Germany had made detailed plans to ship 4 million Jews to Madagascar.
XwQj TIL: From January 1 to Nov 29, 2014 the CDC confirmed 610 measles cases in the US. This is the highest number of cases since measles was considered eliminated in 2000. The infection rate in 2013 was less than 200.
mxZJE TIL a protein in opossum serum completely neutralizes lethal plant, animal, and bacterial toxins, including ricin, snake venoms, and botulinum toxin.
yOye TIL Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl” and is about about an interracial relationship.