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TIL the song ‘Mrs. Robinson’ was originally titled 'Mrs. Roosevelt’, and the lyrics and title were altered at the request of the director of the film 'The Graduate’.

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kOoM7 Across Scandinavia, the average price of everything from a knitted roll neck to pastries from the local bakery are some of the highest in the world. So what makes the region so expensive? CNBC's Tom Chitty reports.
6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
5YdND TIL Reindeer eyes change to a blue color in winter to help gather light during the dark arctic months and return to a golden color during the spring and summer.
e0O0b TIL the actor who played Barney from 1991 - 2001 became a "tantric sex guru"; David Joyner charges $350 per 4-hr session which involves sexual intercourse with the client. Joyner said: "The energy I brought up [while] in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra, which is love."
neBWY TIL in 2004 Nasa discovered that Titan, a moon of Saturn has massive lakes of liquid methane. Titan is the only planet other than earth where lakes of liquid have been discovered.