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TIL that "Uptown Funk" is not a song by Bruno Mars. The song is by British producer Mark Ronson, and Mars is simply "featured" on the track.

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1MV8 TIL the “nasal cycle” is the biological process that automatically switches the bulk of breathing from one nostril to the other throughout the course of the day - and it explains why those with colds will often feel more stuffed up on one side at any given time.
OGLw7 TIL that "Forever Young" by Alphaville, a favorite of high school dances for 40 years, is actually about nuclear war
MeyjA TIL about the Nuremberg Chronicle, an ambitious history of the world published in 1493, with over 300 pages and 2,000 illustrations. Six blank pages are reserved at the end to record events from 1493 to Judgment Day.
xV6vo TIL hair salons in the UK have started to include a "quiet chair" for people who don't want to engage in small talk while getting their hair cut.
Wklmd TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.