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TIL that in 2015 a man called into C-SPAN and began talking about West Philadelphia, and got all the way through the first two stanzas of the “Fresh Prince” theme song before being cut off

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N76D6 TIL in 2001 Disney closed one of its waterparks called River COuntry, but instead of tearing it down, Disney chose to leave it there to rot away, abandoned.
bQL7 TIL of Li-Fi, a potential replacement for Wi-Fi that has reached transmission speeds of up to 200 gigabits per second.
pY8Kb TIL of Operation Looking Glass, the code name for an airborne US command and control centre that would take charge of the response if all US ground bases were lost due to nuclear war. They started with 5 Boeing KC-135's and a plane was in the air 24/7, 365 days a year, for nearly 30 years.
Z8w9B TIL Costa Rica's national anthem was composed in prison. Manuel Gutierrez, an orchestra director, was contacted by the Costa Rican president to compose a national anthem. When Gutierrez replied that he had no composition skills, the president threw him in prison, setting bail at “1 National Anthem".
lwA TIL that Birds are capable of seeing a 4th primary color (in the ultraviolet spectrum) totally invisible to humans. It allows them to see a both a totally different fundamental color, and all derivatives obtained by mixing it with the other three primary colors. The color Shmurple does exist.