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TIL that U.K. Kids Spend Less Time Outside than Prison Inmates

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QJ5yM Today I learned that Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart was actually originally written for a Broadway musical about vampires in love, which was never made (unfortunately!).
A1xn TIL a homeless girl who attended 12 schools in 12 years went to Harvard. She with her family used to move from shelter to shelter or sleep in bus stations or on the street. She was accepted to more than 20 universities before choosing Harvard.
Lkxvm TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.
e0pg6 TIL that in 2008, over 100 countries came together and agreed to ban the use of cluster bombs. Collateral damage to civilians was found to high (98% of victims were civilian, of that, 27% children) Unfortunately, 2 countries refused to agree to this ban, the United States and Russia.
gN9L TIL that the blue Power Ranger Billy Cranston got his surname from the actor Bryan Cranston who had voiced several monsters on the show earlier in his career.