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TIL R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” lyrics repeat “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”. Michael Stipe said his friend Kurt Cobain had a habit of placing "yeah" in Nirvana songs so Stipe wanted to outdo him by writing a song with more “yeahs”

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VeMZ TIL the United States advanced billions of dollars to over 90 nations before, during and immediately after WWII, to friend and foe alike. Only one repaid their debt to the penny-Finland.
epeyn TIL that in2017 Tina Turner received a kidney donated by her husband.
jRGn TIL that if your second toe is longer than your big toe it is a condition called Morton’s Toe and that some statues, including the Statue of Liberty, have feet sculpted that way.
e9WD TIL that Georgi Dimitrov, accused of conspiring to burn the Reichstag German in 1933, successfully defended himself in trial, including grilling Hermann Göring on the stand
ZpGYp TIL chemist Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs damage the ozone, which shields Earth from UV radiation. His work led to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out CFCs, helping heal the ozone.