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TIL Biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word 'Meme' in his 1976 book 'The Selfish Gene'

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KYBmB TIL the song Entrance of the Gladiators was included as a military march in the repertoire of pieces imposed by the SS on prisoners' orchestras to accompany the departures and returns of the work Kommandos in Nazis concentration camps. Today it’s used to signify clowns.
gMDW8 TIL that in 1861, the Japanese created an illustrated history of the United States called Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi (“Children’s Illustrated Tales from 10,000 Countries”) which is a mythology of bizarre tales about the country, including John Adams and his fight against a giant serpent
ER07 TIL : A tomato plant was found on a volcanic island. Scientists weren’t able to figure out how it got there, turns out it had grown from the feces of a scientist that took a dump there.
VMXdk TIL Spaghetto is what you call a single strand of spaghetti.
jNaBQ TIL that the world's most well-preserved mummy was found at the altitude of 6,600 in Argentina. She was a 15-year-old Incan girl who had been sacrificed to gods around 500 years ago.