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TIL that the musician behind "Dame Tu Casita" (The Dancing Alien Meme) was also behind "Chacarron Macarron" (used in r****ded running horse)

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a8wpN TIL that a soldier's Zippo lighter, found in the jungle in Vietnam, was returned to its rightful owner 50 years later ahead of Veteran's Day 2021. The Zippo was engraved with the soldiers name, but the two men never met despite being part of the same unit.
grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
wL116 TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade
m1YgP TIL Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children
R5og1 TIL The Lac Megantic train was left unattended overnight on the main track with a running, damaged engine, and none of that is illegal, or even largely abnormal.