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TIL that not only can Emily Dickinson poems be sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas", it works for Gilligan's Island also.

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oBrgW TIL during the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen, who wore a jockstrap and wings as Bruno, crash-landed on Eminem's lap, buttocks aloft. Eminem, who left the ceremony in disgust, returned to his hotel room and laughed for 3 hours. He later revealed that it was mutually staged.
e0YML TIL that Christmas celebrations were illegal in New England in parts of the 17th century, because the Puritans found no scriptural justification for celebrating it and associated the celebration with paganism and heavy drinking
P1NPV TIL: Thielbek was a cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1940, sunk in an air raid on 3 May 1945 killing 2,750 people aboard. 1949, four years after her sinking, Thielbek was refloated and used until 1974. Human remains found aboard her were buried in the Cap Arcona cemetery at Neustadt.
LQ0Er TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.
GxZG TIL that the Padres baseball team has kept a handicapped player on the team for over 20 years so he doesn’t lose health insurance.