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TIL that in 1954, jazz legend Charles Mingus wrote a concise mail-order handbook for toilet training your cat

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Z4BG TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Walmart
m1rEp TIL Garbage's song 'Fix Me Now' was originally called 'Chris Cornell': in a Yahoo! interview in 2017, one day after Chris' passing, singer Shirley Manson told she was once so 'obsessed' with Cornell that she nearly named the song after him.
YV6B TIL of Allison Jenkins, who was convicted of felony murder of a police officer after the arresting police officer accidentally shot and killed his own partner
jXVN TIL The three warning sings of future psychopathic behavior are 1) animal torture, 2) prolonged bed-wetting, and 3) juvenile pyromania. Criminologists call these symptoms “The Triad.”
v1m1j TIL that early film music was heavily influenced by European romantic music of the late 1800s. The first silent film to feature fully orchestrated accompaniment was "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise" (1908) with a score by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns