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TIL Phil Collins (of Genesis) wrote the Captain Planet and The Planeteers theme song

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4XOwR TIL that Charles Manson's mother sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children. His uncle had to find the woman so that he could get his nephew back.
EgD07 TIL that Joey Fatale, the little person who founded Mini Kiss, also played Little Jay Leno on Late Night With Conan O'Brien
yQj9v TIL alphabetical order was introduced in the 3rd century BC by Zenodotus, who also happened to be the first librarian at the Great Library of Alexandria.
ADx4d TIL of Toupie Lowther, the first openly lesbian woman in sport, who toured the tennis tournaments of Europe in her open-top Mercedes-Benz, had a science degree from the Sorbonne, was a fencer, a practitioner of jujitsu, and assembled a mutlinational all-woman ambulance unit she led to the WWI front.
DQaYe TIL A 30 year old woman in Nazi occupied Norway was struck by shrapnel and developed a strong German accent causing her to be shunned in the first recorded case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.