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TIL Stuart Copeland, drummer from the band “The Police” created the music for “Spyro the Dragon” on the original PlayStation.

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xVGQw TIL About the Civilian Conservation Corps, a US Government sponsored work program that provided training and income for young men and their families during The Great Depression. The program is credited for having improved morale, physical health, and employability for those who participated.
AWra TIL Arlo Guthrie’s most famous song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, is exactly the length of the suspicious gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes.
mxYLp TIL that red pigment (carmine) in most foods is made from crushed insects called cochinaels.
AKwl TIL that not even the Baha Men know the lyrics to the rap part of “Who Let The Dogs Out.”
KYBdB TIL that in 1538, King Henry VIII of England demolished the entire village of Cuddington in Surrey to build Nonsuch Palace. The palace had yet to be completed when Henry VIII died in 1547, and was sold to and finished by Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel in 1556.