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TIL Mad World was originally by Tears For Fears and the Gary Jules version is a cover.

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R5Rej TIL that the dogs in competitive agility don’t rehearse the course ahead of time. The courses are randomized at each competition, and the trainers (without their dogs) only see the layout beforehand on the same day. When the dog runs the course they are literally seeing it for the first time.
P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar
mXov TIL “Turning a blind eye” is thought to come from Admiral Horatio Nelson disobeying an order to withdraw during a naval battle; allegedly putting a telescope to his blind eye & saying “You know, Foley, I have only one eye - and I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal.”
D1nLD TIL Marriott was fined $600,000 by the FCC in 2014 for blocking customers' personal Wi-Fi so customers were forced to pay for internet.
9kZp TIL Margaret Thatcher was one of the few Conservative MPs to support Bill to decriminalize male homosexuality in 1966.