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TIL Hans Zimmer composed the music for the Spider Pig song in The Simpsons Movie.

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b90dN TIL: Decades of studies have shown that parenting has the largest effect on a child's grades, not the quality of the school. Affluent families produce better grades regardless of the school due to having more interactions with their parents, resulting in a 30 million average word gap by age 3.
9YwgD TIL Turtles have bizarre skeletons
nry7 TIL that workers in the UK can’t be forced to work over 48 hours a week unless they have opted out of this restriction.
8lN4 TIL that Compton, CA has a drive-thru funeral home that’s bulletproof. It’s a popular place for gang member funerals.
R5RWl TIL in 2003, Marvel planned to publish a five-part comic series entitled 'Di Another Day' featuring a resurrected Diana, Princess of Wales, as a mutant with superpowers.