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TIL Alt-Rock band They Might Be Giants has 5 children's albums. One of which earned them a Grammy.

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v18Ax TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.
e0Lv4 TIL a man was forced to give up his Dunkin' Donuts shop after he refused to sell breakfast sandwiches with bacon, ham or sausage. Dunkin’ had accommodated his beliefs for years, until 2002 when the company told him he must sell all their products
N75pJ TIL that a Czech general once ordered his skin to be made into a war drum, which was beaten in times of emergency.
nVoP TIL that when Napoleon emancipated the Jews he stated that “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country”
nwG TIL there’s an octopus that can kill you in one bite - there is no anti-venom