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TIL that the Sesame Street song "Rubber Duckie" peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 26th, 1970. It also reached #10 in Australia.

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WkNy9 TIL of an elephant sanctuary in Phuket, Thailand that is doing its best to stop the elephant riding tourist trade.
ADn67 TIL of "Maplewashing", which is a tendency of Canadian institutions to present Canada as a morally superior place
wLd0o TIL that in 1910, before the rise of cigarettes, Alton Ochsner was told to watch an autopsy of a lung cancer patient because he might never see the disease again. Later, Ochsner's clinic would help prove the link between smoking and cancer.
9Y7YX TIL that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin had an improvised jam session which was recorded but never released.
o5eY TIL that Silver has been found to kill bacteria previously thought immune to antibacterial agents.