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TIL the Futurama theme song is a remix of the song Psyche Rock by Pierre Henry from 1967

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5VQjQ TIL the word dumpster wasn't added to the Scrabble dictionary until 2022 due to it being a trademark before.
ANaJg TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps.
xV1k TIL there was a British submarine named the “HMS Tally-Ho”
vPOER TIL Kerosene is used to extinguish fire in a bale of cotton
Z8oGY TIL that the world's coldest capital city is Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, with an annual average temperature of -1.3°C (-29.7°F). The second-coldest is Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) in Kazakhstan, followed by Moscow (Russia), Helsinki (Finland), Reykjavik (Iceland), Tallinn (Estonia), and Ottawa (Canada)