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TIL that Toto (the band who sang Africa) were the studio band for Michael Jackson's album Thriller

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DOwD TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger used to participate in orgies with other bodybuilders in the 70’s as “having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training .. afterward you go back to the serious stuff.” He was antihomophobic, claiming that gays and bodybuilders faced stereotyping.
1Yar TIL in 2008 Nadya Suleman, mother to six children, was implanted with 12 embryos via in vitro fertilization. She gave birth to octuplets (eight babies – all survived) and was dubbed “Octomom”. Dr. Michael Kamrava lost his medical license due to of his “extreme departure from standard of care”.
M7AMV TIL Two of the most repetitive classical music pieces, Handel's Sarabande and Ravel's Bolero are almost exactly 200 years apart.
MeayW TIL Paul Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish gentleman, saved over 200,000 children during the Irish famine.
ONx7 TIL In 1961, a little girl wrote a letter to JFK asking if Santa Claus was okay during the Soviet’s nuclear testing at the North Pole. Kennedy wrote back to her saying that he spoke with Santa and that he’s okay.