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TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.

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DQYbV TIL that in the early 1980's, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, other people found the captioning to be deeply disturbing and the newspaper apologized for the errors.
PYnOe TIL that natural gas, a cheap and available fossil fuel extensively mined in the USA, produces roughly 50% LESS climate changing carbon dioxide than coal, and that most coal-powered power plants can be converted to run on it.
YpWXv TIL that Saturn could float in water.
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VML5p TIL that a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process (like a mailer-daemon). The name is taken from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.