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TIL Oh, Boy! and That'll Be the Day were recorded by The Crickets formed and fronted buy Buddy Holly Not Buddy Holly and The Crickets

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NX0mP TIL the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. This perpetuated the myth that lemmings commit mass-suicide for years to come.
nWXGr TIL the world’s nuclear powers conducted more than 500 atmospheric tests before moving them underground to try to limit the spread of radioactivity
E1DOo TIL Switzerland is rigged with over 3000 demolition points to collapse bridges and create bomb shelters in event of an attack.
eRkJ TIL until World War II, tea was still used as a form of currency in Siberia.
xYok TIL 95% of the body’s “happiness hormone, serotonin, is found in the bowels.