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TIL Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Bass” plagiarized its melody from a Korean song that came out 8 years earlier.

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KObJJ TIL that in the US, production of alarm clocks was allowed in 1944, despite them containing brass needed for war materials, because workers kept missing their shifts due to a critical alarm clock shortage.
d5WK TIL that Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it kept screaming profanities during the service.
XEdMP TIL Modern scientific methods came about as a result of an argument whether adding the milk first to the tea is better
rRAV1 TIL that although considered one of the most toxic animals on earth, if a poison dart frogs is raised in captivity will never develop venom. This is likely because they assimilate plant poisons which are carried by their prey.