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TIL the series "Schoolhouse Rock!" was the idea of an ad executive who noticed his young son was struggling with learning multiplication tables, yet had no problem memorizing lyrics. He asked Bob Dourough to set them to music. This ended up becoming the song "Three is a magic number".

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yQp7V Today I Learned the best preserved dinosaur fossil is 110 million years old and still has its skin
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6Ebl7 TIL that on Skylab, the American space station of the 1970s, astronauts could exercise by jogging around the water tank, and that the entertainment equipment included darts. However, they weren't interested in games (or movies), preferring to read, listen to music, and look out the window to relax.
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