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TIL Simon & Garfunkel's first album was so unsuccessful on the charts that the duo split. Their producer took one of the songs from the album, overdubbed/remixed it without their knowledge or permission, and "The Sounds of Silence" became a hit. The duo made four more albums.

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aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.
QNVxM TIL Charles Darwin only worked about 4 hours a day. He worked for two 90-minute periods each morning & then one 60-minute period later in the day. Before the latter, he would take an hour nap & go on 2 walks. On this schedule he wrote 19 books including The Descent of Man & On the Origin of Species.
QJnRa TIL of the Scrub Bulls of Australia, wild descendants of 20 cattle released from an abandoned military post in 1849. In the 1960's researchers realized there was a population of some 1,500 feral cattle. Today they are often hunted for sport.
rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.
6mEw TIL in 1993, The Barbie Liberation Organization challenged gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of hundreds of Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and ‘reverse shoplifting’ them back into stores. Barbies would yell, “Eat lead, Cobra!” while G.I. Joes would ask, “Want to go shopping?”.