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TIL the children's song "Playmate" was first recorded by multiple artists in 1940, with the melody plagiarized from a 1904 song, "Iola."

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wBGM TIL H. Jon Benjamin, voice actor for Sterling Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers, made a jazz album entitled “Well, I should have…” (subtitled “learned to play piano”). He plays jazz piano on the album. He does not know how to play piano.
9oJ7 TIL Japan has Kentucky Fried Chicken flavored Potato Chips
oyPL TIL a documentary film called “My Kid Could Paint That”, which was supposed to be about a child painting prodigy, turned into an investigative piece when it turned out her parents were likely producing “her” artwork
6E00l TIL the Sovient Union developed a nuclear weapon so power that not even they were willing to test it at full capacity. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever tested in the earth's atmosphere, having a mushroom cloud spanning over 40 miles (64km) and a yield of 57 million tons of TNT.
v1XvL TIL the most expensive mansion ever built in the US ($179,925,000), was demolished 16 years after completion when the owner’s widow sold the property to a developer.