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TIL the Futurama theme song is made entirely of sampled music.

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Ljvr TIL that beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see when they’re underwater.
8wmZ TIL in 1953, the City of Niagara Falls bought a plot of land called “Love Canal” for $1 from a chemical company that had used the area as a dump. Despite warnings from the company, a school was built on the land. From 1974–1978, 56% of children in the area were born with birth defects.
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
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8e0x8 TIL the actor Sinbad was one of the worst debtors to the state of California in 2009, owing up to $2.5 million in income-tax to the state