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TIL John Williams created the original theme song for Lost in Space

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975m TIL The Beatles had EXTREMELY MODEST demands in their 1965 USA Tour rider, including just “four cots, mirrors, an ice cooler, portable TV set and clean towels.”
v8d7 TIL shaving your pubic hair increases the risk for STD’s because shaving causes many fine cuts in the skin near your genitals, giving more access points for viruses and bacteria to enter your system (cross-post from the comments of r/WTF)
mo1O TIL: For his third election in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt ran on his New-Nationalism philosophy, which he defined: “To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
ADRe4 TIL the oldest wooden church in the world and the oldest wooden building in Europe is St. Andrew's in Greensted, Essex, England
NGP1 TIL there is an amusement park in Nara, originally created to mimic DisneyLand in the US. The Park is now abandoned and looks awesome!