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TIL that when the Tennessee legislature proposed to erect a statue of Dolly Parton, she asked the legislature to remove the bill from consideration, saying it wasn't appropriate to put her on a pedestal.

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kOgJm TIL The song commonly called the Can-Can is actually a small section of a larger piece called Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, by Jacques Offenbach in 1858.
OaG4 TIL Indian Vulture suffered a 99% population decrease in Indo-Pak between 2000-2007 due to poisoning caused by the veterinary drug diclofenac. (Reduces joint pain in cattle and keeps them working for longer in old age). The drug enters vultures from the flesh of dead cattle.
VBAYZ TIL Leonardo da Vinci Used Mirror Writing for the Majority of His Personal Notes
kmyg TIL the original voice for Siri was a woman named Susan Bennett. She was paid hourly to record nonsense phrases for a third party company, and only later learned that she had provided Apple with “all of the sounds of the English language”, which they could then formed into any response.
X0Adj TIL that writer Tommy Blacha (Metalocalypse, Late Night With Conan O'Brien) worked as creative director of WWE in 1999.