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TIL in 1909, the first truly salacious hit song “I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife—But Oh! You Kid!” made the leap from vaudeville stage to the sheet music stands of a million parlor room pianos in America, inciting newspaper editorials, outraged sermons by preachers, and at least one fatal shooting.

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YyBd TIL: The original microwave output 3,000 watts and could cook a steak well-done in 50 seconds.
D1JaJ TIL of the Caretaker, an artist who made eerie, disorienting music that emulates dementia and memory loss. His work, "Everywhere at the End of Time" shows the progression of a "slow death of a soul" through 6 stages.
kJPed TIL the pearlfish can live inside a sea cucumber's anus when it dilates to breathe. They also eat the gonads, along with other organs. Sometimes 5 or more can be in one sea cucumber.
OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.
GdGN TIL that many people consider Die Hard to be a Christmas movie.