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TIL the song "Miss United States" from Miss Congeniality was written by a 6 year old.

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R5DWa TIL Lettvin et al. remarked that a frog "will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving"; it won't see the [stationary] food due to a general lack of head/eye movements, which lead to visual fading
97wB TIL that Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’ is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a song (1,560 words in 6:04 minutes at an average of 4.28 words per second)
l7bn1 TIL that the 1990s sitcom Dinosaurs used the family name "Sinclair" as a nod to the real-world oil company Sinclair, which had a dinosaur as its mascot.
OoNjg TIL that in 2003, a Boeing 727 in Angola was stolen and no trace of the plane or the two people in it were ever found despite investigations by the FBI and CIA.
5YkEQ TIL there are now more Spanish-speakers in the United States than there are in Spain.