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TIL according to a study done by a cognitive neuroscientist, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ is the most feel-good song of all time.

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e4Y5 TIL that not a single engineer made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
P1bdJ TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.
x4lk TIL Mark Wahlberg was a violent racist bully in the 80’s. He purposely yelled racial slurs and threw rocks at black people. He also beat a vietnamese man in public.
v1Dvj TIL that the "Jonny Quest" (1964) theme was written by the composer Hoyt Curtin to be impossible for the Trombonists to play correctly, after getting ribbing from his Trombone section about writing music that was too easy to play.
VBjgm TIL at the 2003 Nickilodeon kids choice awards, in the award for favourite movie : Ice Age, Spider Man 2 and Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets were all beaten by eventual winner Austin Powers: Goldmember