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TIL the song Tomorrow from the musical Annie was originally written for a musical production of the classic novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes but then switched.

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5V7kn TIL where the word "Gerrymander" comes from. The 1812 Massachusetts Congress redrew the state districts to give their party electoral advantage, which Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed into law. A local paper compared the shape of one district to a salamander, coining the term "Gerry-mander", which stuck.
pVMZ TIL: OJ Simpson’s father was a well known drag queen and died of aids in 1986.
W7Ye9 [TIL] That "Ducky" from NCIS actually wrote the music used in The Next Episode by Dr. Dre.
jjya TIL the Scottish parliament and the Tourist Board of Scotland in 2007 spent £125,000 coming up with the slogan “Welcome to Scotland”
aw0mb TIL of super recognisers, people with the ability to recognise faces much strongly than normal people, 80% more! Scotland Yard have a squad of 200 of these types of people.