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TIL that from a young age Big Boi from Outcast was heavily influenced by Kate Bush's music and her hit "Running up That Hill".

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b9GXZ TIL Conan, a military dog who took part in the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named after Conan O'Brien. He chased after Baghdadi before Baghdadi detonated his suicide vest.
b9kPN TIL that there exist fungus that can digest gamma rays using melanin, the protein found in our skin, and turn it into energy.
eGg6 TIL that there are only six people left on the planet who can still ‘speak’ the whistled language known as sfyria
84o4 TIL in 1973 the artist Salvador Dali did a painting depicting Adolf Hitler masturbating on a snowy hillside
7801X TIL that after Lord Palmerston's death, Queen Victoria wrote that she had never liked or respected him: "Strange, and solemn to think of that strong, determined man, with so much worldly ambition – gone! He had often worried and distressed us, though as Pr. Minister he had behaved very well."