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TIL that Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" is the top requested funeral song in the U.K.

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MeL7A TIL that George Washington is the highest ranking officer in the US army. He was promoted to the rank of General of the Armies on January 19, 1976, and he has steadfastly held onto power, even though he's been dead for 220 years. This makes the US army the world's only necrocracy.
dDA8d TIL of Molly and Clay Daniels, a couple who committed insurance fraud. They dug up a corpse, burned it in a car, and pretended it was the husband that died. They then went around introducing Clay as Molly's "new" boyfriend to everyone, including their own kids.
D1Dve TIL that ocean gets its smell from a compound called dimethylsulphide which is produced from microorganisms in ocean
QJWDL TIL A Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaître, was first to propose what became known as the Big Bang theory. The origin of the universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg." And was first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law.
rN4Xo TIL that some urban birds like finches and sparrows use cigarette butts as a form of pest control for their nests. The nicotine in the cigarettes helps keep parasites away.