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TIL Jenny McCarthy was awarded the pigasus award for “fooling the greatest number of people with the least amount of effort”

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RkBj TIL that the melody of Happy Birthday Song is not actually copyrighted, in fact it is only the words that are copyrighted.
OoWm4 TIL that Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has one of the biggest collection of videogames in the libraries'world, from PS3/X360 till next gen. Users can loan them and play at home for free and they also send them to other US libraries with Interlibrary Loan service.
Egre0 TIL There is a spider bite (Brazilian Wandering Spider) that will give you a raging erection for hours when bitten
QJPVp TIL that in 2016, 'lost songs' and medieval music that hadn't been heard for 1,000 years were reconstructed and performed by experts from Cambridge University.
wLWx8 TIL the name Shirley was considered to be a distinctly male name until the publication of Charlotte Bronte's novel "Shirley" in 1849. Since then it has been popularly considered to be a female name