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TIL Kylie Minogue's "Can’t Get You Out of My Head" was the second most named earworm in a 2017 study

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pYaoQ Today I learned that "ground beef" meant beef that has been ground via some sort of grinding process, not beef that came from the land.
dDEL8 TIL that “The Prince”, the political Treatise which originated the concepts of Machiavellianism, is believed by some to be a satire, as it contradicts Machiavelli’s other writings.
rN7mo TIL that while searching for the three missing civil rights workers in 1964 (Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner) in the Bogue Chitto swamp near Philadelphia Mississippi, the Navy searchers failed to find the civil rights workers, but did find eight other bodies.
YJdG TIL Contrary to popular belief, Texas has no more right to secede than any other state. But its 1845 annexation agreement does permit its division into as many as five states without federal approval.
R7oWQ TIL Alex Trebek sleeps naked. In 2011, a burglar broke into his hotel room where Trebek and his wife were sleeping. Alex put on a pair of underwear and chased the burglar before he tore his Achilles tendon during the chase.