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TIL Petula Clark had a worldwide hit in 1967 with "This is my song". #1 in UK, Ireland, Australia, and #3 in the US and Canada. Words and music were written by Charlie Chaplin.

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mx7Xo TIL "We have the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter." Jeremy Howard
wGo1 TIL: At the age of 76, Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu gave his life to protect 23 students during the Virginia Tech massacre. After his death, he was honored with the highest civil order Romania can bestow, the Order of the Star of Romania.
4knRJ TIL Octopus have 9 brains, 3 lungs and blue blood. Each of its 8 arms has one mini-brain, and one central brain. The blue blood is because the protein, haemocyanin, which carries oxygen around the octopus's body, contains copper rather than iron...
6EMeJ TIL about the "multi-dog experiment". In 1968, Demikhov transplanted a puppy’s head onto the neck of another dog. It was the first "two body-one circulation" system. This taboo experiment which was criticized a lot became the founding principle of the modern heart and lung transplant we have today.
9YBjG TIL Mongols have an ice fishing technique at Changan Lake that dates back over 2,000 years and is done in temperatures as low as -22C to -30C.