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TIL that "Weird Al" Yankovic released "Polkamon", a song that featured briefly during the credits of "Pokémon: The Movie 2000".

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ZQjv TIL that if when Sputnik was launched in October 1957, if you turn on your radio to its frequency, you could hear it, and it sounded like this
n6VB TIL just months after the Hiroshima bombing, Kix cereal offered an atomic-bomb-shaped ring in exchange for a box-top and 15 cents. Each contained a glowing sample of polonium.
ZOyv TIL of the Children’s Crusade, in 1212 an unofficial crusade took place in which Nicholas of Cologne attempted to lead ~30,000 children to the holy land. They later found a fleet of boats willing to give them free passage to the Levant. The sailors ended up selling the children as slaves in Africa.
7Pwb TIL there is a a food substitute intended to supply all of a human body’s daily nutritional needs, known as Soylent
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