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TIL The Beach Boys performed a song written by Charles Manson on the Mike Douglas Show in 1969

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vJbj TIL that in 1884, mine workers on strike pushed burning carts into the mines in New Straitsville, OH and started a 132 year underground fire that burns to this day. Massive amounts of coal were burned and residents of the area had reportedly used hot water from nearby wells to make instant coffee.
oBQxK TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was identified by ancient Indian author Pingala around 200 BC. Writing about meters in Sanskrit poetry, he also described binary numbers (in the form of short & long syllables, similar to Morse code), Pascal's Triangle, and the first known explicit reference to zero.
kJxMe TIL that German chocolate cake was invented in Texas
nWdKr TIL that in 2006, paleontologists officially named a dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, meaning "Dragon King of Hogwarts." The skull’s spiky appearance reminded them of the dragons described in the Harry Potter books. However, later research suggested it likely wasn’t a separate species.
ZWQB TIL that a neutrino particle could pass through a block of lead 1 light year thick and never interact or be stopped by a single atom.