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TIL “Tittynope” is a word

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16ww7 TIL that when pop group The Association released their single "Cherish" in 1966, it was 3:15, when at the time radio stations wouldn't play songs over three minutes. The producer listed it as 3:00 anyway, and it went on to become a #1 hit
W7Nn9 TIL that one of the waitresses on the show "Alice" was supposed to be a relative of Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg, the white-suited Southern crimelord from "The Dukes of Hazzard."
yQ5DM TIL after Richard I was shot with a crossbow, before he died he summoned the boy, who assumed he’d be executed. Instead, he forgave the boy and sent him away with 100 shillings. After Richard died, the boy was hanged.
womDJ TIL that as the USS Franklin was returning to Pearl Harbor for repairs after surviving multiple kamikaze hits, the captain refused to allow the harbor pilot to dock the aircraft carrier, wanting to do it himself. He proceeded to immediately crash the ship into the dock.
d9E9 TIL The British outlawed the worship of Sopona, the god of smallpox, in Nigeria after a doctor infiltrated a powerful cult of the god’s priests and discovered they were deliberately spreading the disease in a plot to increase their power.