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TIL that Marilyn Manson did a cover of Suicide Is Painless, the theme song to the TV show MAS*H, and said the song was “more depressing and offensive than anything I’ve written.”

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KOgGE TIL that the Overjustification effect is a psychological phenomenon in which being rewarded to do something diminishes the motivation to perform the action. For example, playing an instrument for a reward is not as motivating as playing an instrument just for fun.
4XrMo TIL the monster truck, Grave Digger has had 41 iterations. Number 13 was skipped because of Triskaidekaphobia
awpVA TIL that a Kuwaiti woman wanted to take revenge on her husband for taking a second wife, so she poured petrol on the tent where women and children were celebrating in the wedding, killing 57 and injuring 90 others.
OQ6L TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.
jNNM TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.