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TIL that the theme song for Nick’s “The Amanda Show” is a remix of music from a level in Spyro the Dragon - both were credited to the same guy, who wrote all of the music for the original Spyro trilogy: Stewart Copeland.

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dxnQ TIL that, in 1957, a terminal cancer patient was given a worthless drug that caused his tumors to “melt like snowballs on a hot stove.” When he found out it was proven worthless, his cancer returned. He was given a placebo version and it went away again. He learned the truth, then died soon after.
7rXPP TIL: That only in 1992 we confirmed there are planets beyond our solar system.
PjQn TIL the real-life Captain Sobel, from Band of Brothers (David Scwimmer) shot himself in the 60s and died of malnutrition in the 80s. No services were held for his death.
xVrlw TIL Iowa had a professional NBA team in 1950
6XEZ TIL Adolf Hitler wrote admiringly of the Chinese and Japanese. “They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud [of ours].”