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TIL that “I Will Always Love You” was originally written and recorded by Dolly Parton in 1973 as a farewell song for her business partner.

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0wymM TIL about Thought-Terminating Clichés - a type of logical fallacy that employs the loaded language of a well known phrase or saying that offers seemingly simple solutions to complex questions for the sole purpose of shutting down further debate by diminishing critical thinking.
v7rj TIL Killer whales can and do regularly eat swimming moose.
yQaxl TIL that no Major League Baseball player has ever worn the number 86 or 89. Every other number between 0-99 has been worn by at least one player
7lvM TIL that in December 2012 a complex systems scientist walked up to the podium at the American Geophysics Union to present a paper. The paper was titled, “Is Earth Fucked?” His answer was: “Yeah. Pretty much.”
PYRYL TIL when sonar was first invented, operators were puzzled by the appearance of a ‘false seafloor’ that changed depth with the time of day and amount of moonlight. It was eventually identified as a previously unknown layer of billions of lanternfish that reflect sonar waves and migrate up and down.