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TIL that "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by the Spin Doctors was about Chris Barron's stepmother. When he was a kid, she told him that he would grow up to be a janitor and would play his songs for the rats. The Spin Doctors' debut album sold 5 million copies with this song as the lead single.

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7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
nWeGb TIL that the #1 leading cause of death for a pregnant woman in the United States is homicide.
N7Oje TIL the first "mooning incident" resulted in the deaths of 10,000 Jews.
4XZog TIL There's a theory that John Wilkes Booth wasn't killed after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, but that he actually escaped and lived under a pseudonyms for 38 more years -- and that his mummified body toured the country for decades after his true death in 1903.
6Ewa7 TIL: An interesting yet unexplained phenomenon is that men have erections while dreaming (REM sleep), even when the dream is void of salacious content. The ancient cultures that believed soul flies away during dreams, typically depict dreaming by an erection and a bird flying away from the body.