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TIL the 1958 horror movie "The Blob" had a bizarrely ridiculous but awesome theme song.

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690bm TIL during Obon, an annual family reunion holiday in Japan, the spirits of ancestors are believed to revisit household altars, and to help them come back home and return, a cucumber horse and an eggplant cow are crafted as vessels, respectively.
d4VZ TIL that there is a sergeant on the California State Patrol who is called “The Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge.” He has stopped hundreds of people from jumping into the water.
JYnZm TIL that Kent released a cigarette in 1952 with a filter made out of asbestos (branded as a "micronite filter"). they sold 13 billion of these cigarettes before being discontinued in 1956 and they are suspected of causing many mesothelioma cases
mxk1P TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, a sleep/headache disorder in which a person may hear a loud, hallucinatory noise right before falling asleep/waking up. Despite the vivid name, it is completely harmless.
yQBpa TIL of Enheduanna who is the earliest known poet whose name has been recorded. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna. She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.