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TIL Athlete, Marios Giannakou, Carried A Disabled Biology Student Named Eleftheria To The Top Of Mount Olympus, Her Dream

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vPbY7 TIL that Ziggy Marley sang the theme song to Arthur. I always knew that song was extra
awd0Z TIL about the Bangui magnetic anomaly which is a dip in the Earth's magnetic field in the Central African Republic - a grievously poor country in the middle of Africa. The anomaly may have been caused by an ancient meteorite impact...
yVMO8 TIL that long before the Clampett family took that title, there was a country/western/bluegrass group in the 1930s called The Beverly Hill Billie's. Some of their recordings are on YouTube.
b9Xl7 TIL that 50% of people get chills from listening to music
WlZL TIL that in 1919, a dog named Tang saved 92 people after their boat capsized in stormy seas. The dog jumped into the stormy seas with the boat’s tow rope in his mouth and swam to shore where the rope was used to tow the boat in.