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TIL that Quincy Jones composed the music for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro

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jNYNE TIL about the Turritopsis Dohrnii, a jellyfish that can live forever.
m1xeM TIL pork butt is not the rear end of the pig, it's actually the shoulder. The pork shoulders were named after the barrels they used to be kept in, which were called butts.
v1mAL TIL about Missouri Compromise. It determined that in states located south of the 36°30' parallel, slavery was allowed. Every time the United States expanded west, two states would be created, one pro-slavery in the south and other anti-slavery in the north to keep the balance of power.
XWpQ TIL on March 12 1981, two different comic strips, with the same name and same general idea were published on the same day, one in the USA and the other in the UK, created by two different artists, who had absolutely no knowledge of one another. The comic strip in question is Dennis the Menace.
eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.