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TIL that Toploader, best known for their cover of King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight", were named after a joint-rolling technique.

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agVy TIL An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta”, the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: “If.”
XEnNr TIL about a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern who stayed awake for 40 years after being shot in the head during World War I. Doctors encountering his condition were always skeptical, but Kern traveled far and wide, allowing anyone who wanted to examine him to do so. He died in 1955.
xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
MeddK TIL that one of the songs from the soundtrack to The Terminator (1984) was co-written by Joe Dolce, who had become famous for writing and performing the comedy song Shaddap You Face a few years earlier. It plays during the scene where the robot attacks Sarah's friend Ginger and her partner.
nQ67 TIL of Joseph Newton Chandler III, a reclusive engineer living in Ohio who was posthumously discovered to have stolen the identity of an eight year old boy who died in a car crash in 1945. He had been living as Joe Chandler for 24 years when he died, and his true identity has never been established