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TIL Barry Manilow did not write the song "I Write The Songs", which became his famous signature track. The 1975 hit was actually written by Bruce Johnston, a longtime Beach Boys member.

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0kkN TIL that all of the six remaining William Shakespeare signatures have different spelling
X0DLr TIL about the Higgs boson, also known as 'the God particle', an elementary particle which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Its existence was first proposed in the 1960's, but evidence for the particle would only be found in 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.
JYGyj TIL John von Newmann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six and learned calculus by age eight. He developed the computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine.
Bm7K TIL Canadians graduate with more student debt than Americans on average, despite far lower tuition rates
8a7dZ TIL about rubber duck debugging, where programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck