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TIL Stevie Nicks sang backup on (and inspired) Walter Egan's "Magnet and Steel"

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Ax9B TIL That Spongebob Squarepants was originally going to be called Spongeboy and the show was originally going to be called Spongeboy Ahoy, but they had to change his name after it turned out that Spongeboy was the copyrighted name of a mop.
nexWd TIL of "Project Sandstorm", a sandstorm alarm in the works that uses Darude's Sandstorm as its alarm tone which increases in speed and volume depending on the severity of the storm
x0Pw TIL the founder of the Samaritans (the suicide hotline) was Chad Varah, an Anglican priest whose first service was a funeral for a fourteen-year-old girl who died by suicide because she had begun to menstruate and feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
BMPr TIL that dinosaurs were around 163 million years before the evolution of grass. (Dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago while grass evolved 67 million years ago).
ne8l9 TIL that there was a live adaptation of "How to Train Your Dragon" called "How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular" that ran in Australia during 2012-2013 from the same people that created "Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular". The pics are something else.