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TIL there is a jellyfish whose sting causes feelings of impending doom

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l7XNV TIL that Flight of the Bumblebee was originally intended to only be an interlude, or a song played in between acts, to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's play. Despite its unimportant part in the play, it still became one of the most recognizable classical songs due to its frequent usage in pop culture.
gM8Vb TIL in 897 the Catholic Church exhumed a dead pope, dressed him in papal gear and put his corpse on trial.
rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet
lNXK TIL that a group of friends faked a case to get on Judge Judy and got 1500 dollars out of it.
x7R7 TIL the barking sounds heard at the beginning of Jane’s Addiction’s single “Been Caught Stealing” was the result of singer Perry Farrell’s dog in the vocal booth. He and his dog ran around the room and the dog started barking inside.