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

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0w1yN TIL Virgin Media tasked 10 staff working around the clock to find 1 voicemail recording of an OAP's late wife, as he had lost it due to the system upgrade.
KOlME TIL: The name Kevin in Germany has a particularly bad reputation (related to lower socioeconomic status), so much so that the word 'Alpha-Kevin' has been coined, representative of a particularly unintelligent young person. 'Kevinism' has even been described as an 'avoidable childhood illness'.
gMv8 TIL there is a sea slug that can eat algae and gain the ability to photosynthesize, so it never has to find food again for the rest of its life cycle.
YrdP TIL “Mary” of Mary Had A Little Lamb was an 83-year-old teacher named Mary F. Sawyer, who brought her pet lamb to the school she taught at around the time of the Battle of Waterloo
Z8DRp TIL War pigs were used by the romans because their squeals scared the war elephants into fleeing and trampling their own armies.