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TIL that Sesame Street had a Dolly Parton parody called Polly Darton that sang a version of 9to5 called 1 to 5 to help pre-schoolers count...

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1ablW TIL that Marathonist athletes in the early 1900s used brandy, glasses of bubbly, and strychnine (best known now as rat poison) and sometimes even heroin or cocaine to mask pain, increase aggressiveness, and/or give a quick energy boost during races!
78gmr TIL that in 1941 a reindeer lived on board a British submarine for about 6 weeks with over 50 human crew members.
R7Ly6 TIL shipping magnate Malcom McLean built the high speed SL-7 cargo ships only to see the '73 Oil Crisis increase fuel costs tenfold, forcing them from service. Next he bet the fate of his company on the extremely fuel efficient Jumbo Econships, only to see oil prices crash. US Lines went bankrupt.
4XdjR TIL the sound effect in the opening line of the song Iron Man, "I am Iron Man", was made by having Ozzy Osbourne sing from behind a fan.
P15en TIL that cannabis use can prevent nightmares caused by PTSD.