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TIL Cyndi lauper"s 80s hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a cover of the Robert Hazards song of the same name from the late 70s.

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wowVY TIL Catacomb saints are skeletons exhumed from Roman catacombs and decorated with gold and jewels to serve as "replacement relics" for those destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. It is unlikely that any of those skeletons are actually of the people they are reputed by tradition to be.
Oo1wL TIL that Iceland has the highest number of authors per head, and one in ten icelandic people will publish a book in their lifetime
x6vMw TIL that during WWII German troops consumed over 38 million crystal meth tablets, which could also be bought without a prescription.
nWver TIL that the sandbox tree, aka the 'dynamite tree' is covered in poison-filled spikes. Its pumpkin-shaped fruits, when ripe, explode and fling seeds at 250 km/h (160 mph).
xV5Vw TIL: In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay as his address. When he tried to tell them that Fort Gay actually exists in West Virginia, it took an appeal from the town’s mayor for it to be corrected.