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TIL that Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is cyclical, with the phrase “Isn’t this where…“ ”…we came in?” split in half between the first and last song. When the two songs are spliced together, the complete phrase “Isn’t this where we came in?” forms, proposing that Pink’s story repeats itself

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yVoWJ TIL in 1941, the Japanese Government elected in 1937 passed a law extending the term of the Representatives from four years to five, extending their own term to 1942. During that one extra year, they attacked Pearl Harbor.
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0waPp TIL that when you see the writing credits for a movie, the word “and” between names means the writers worked separately and an ampersand (i.e., “&”) between names means they were a writing team.