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e0epE TIL The anime Ghost Stores did so poorly in Japan that the original writers allowed the American dub to be whatever it wanted, so the Americans turned a horror anime into a comedy one
YAgr TIL that Leibniz didn’t ‘steal’ calculus from Newton, he discovered it independently and invented a better format for it that we still use today
meeO TIL a 4 year old boy ran away from home and become the lead of a wolf pack after he provided them with food. He lived with the wolves for 2 years, was caught by police, and later served in the Russian Army.
Oo4Jg TIL, Kenny Loggins was one of many collaborators on the song "We Are The World" by USA for Africa, and that would lead to him to performing Footloose at the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid famine relief concert event of the 1980s.
ADOxn TIL that Tom Wilson, who portrayed Biff Tannen in the Back to The Future trilogy made a song answering the most repetitive questions about the films that he wishes people would stop asking him. It's called "The Question Song."