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TIL that Stephen king was a huge Ramones fan and asked the Ramones to write a song for his 1989 movie pet Sematary based on his book Pet Sematary

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5nZ8 TIL that there is a Japanese urban legend about a spirit who haunts public bathrooms and will ask you if you want red or blue toilet paper.
Wk7a8 TIL that Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragedian, was supposedly prophesied to die from a falling object, and therefore stayed outdoors. He was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock.
J1mDv TIL that goats have rectangular pupils, which give them a wider field of vision to spot predators.
b6rV9 TIL while most Woolly Mammoth populations died out 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, the last population survived on Wrangell Island up until 4000 years ago, as the Pyramids were being built.
9K7X TIL that mathematicians have jokingly proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty: the “millihelen.” Inspired by Helen of Troy, a millihelen is defined as “the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.”