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TIL The title song "That Thing You Do" was written by the same guy who also wrote "Stacy's Mom"

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b9mrZ TIL that a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for 8 days disguised as an island.
a9QM TIL Sadhus, Indian holy men, renunciate this world to the point that they attend their own funeral and even the Indian government recognizes them as legally dead.
P19Lg TIL of the 1958 book "The Rise of the Meritocracy," a sociological prediction of a 2033 future dystopia where social stratification develop on the claim that the top class is the most meritorious, and the bottom pacified in a belief that they're "dunces" not allowed to protest or engage in politics
v18a8 TIL the constellation Argo Navis (representing a ship) was considered impractical by astronomers for being too big and in 1930 it was broken down in three constellations: Carina (the hull), Puppis (the Deck) and Vela (the sail)
RpN4 TIL there’s a coast-to-coast hiking trail that connects Delaware and California