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TIL Britney Spears’ Toxic sampled its famous hook from a 1981 Bollywood musical.

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ORAe TIL: Black Entertainment Television (BET) Is owned by a white guy (Sumner Redstone)
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BOb TIL a cat miraculously survived the sinking of three separate ships in World War Two, earning the moniker “Unsinkable Sam”
Wk1w9 TIL that in World War 2, a Nepalese Gurkha named Lachhiman Gurung single handily took on a force of 200 Japanese soldiers even after his right hand was blown off by a grenade and killed 31 of them.
OoLk1 TIL Police Woman, a 1974-1978 NBC TV show starring Angie Dickinson about a female cop caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States & was President Ford's favorite show, cancelling a press conference in order to avoid delaying an episode