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TIL a man spent 12 years trapped inside his body watching ‘Barney’ reruns

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69YK7 TIL about Thomas Scot Halpin, a fan of UK band The Who, who during a 1973 Quadrophenia tour concert volunteered to fill in for the remainder of the set after drummer Keith Moon had passed out from drugs and alcohol.
9wp7p TIL Archimedes is recorded to have died in a math related killing. The most common story is that he was too busy solving a math problem to follow orders from Roman soldiers and was killed, or that he was found with scientific instruments that were mistaken as valuables and killed for them.
Zp874 TIL Secretary of State Anthony Blinken wrote a recorded this funk song in 2020
loE4G TIL that the California King is not the largest size mattress-- that honor goes to the Alaskan King, which is a whopping 108" x 108" (that's 9 feet x 9 feet)!
xVlyg TIL of William Donovan, the only person to have received all four of the United States' highest awards: The Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal. Donovan was also awarded the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.