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TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is originally from Björk’s music video “Triumph Of A Heart”

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4XoBg TIL - Phil Collins amazed Disney bosses when he agreed to sing his songs for the studio's films Tarzan and Brother Bear phonetically in a number of different languages.
6bxw TIL a lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases.
R78l9 TIL that many PBS stations across the US switched to all children's programming after the September 11th attacks in order to "provide children a safe harbor from continuous news coverage of the attacks."
G6X4 TIL that more people were killed in the Battle of the Somme (141 days), than died in the American Civil War (4 years, 27 days)