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TIL that ‘Intergalactic’ by the Beastie Boys was based on a classical composition called “Night on Bald Mountain.”

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e7OD TIL that Scooby Doo’s full name is “Scoobert Doo.” Scoobert. Doo.
8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)
jN9XR Today I learned there is cat called Oscar that lives in a nursing home and it can predict the next death by going to the room of the person and sitting with them to provide comfort.
XELP6 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.
ke5B TIL that more than a hundred American and German sailors died in a naval confrontation in the Samoas in 1889, despite neither side firing a shot. The captains on both sides refused to show ‘weakness’ by taking steps to prepare for an oncoming hurricane.