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TIL that Stewart Copeland, the drummer for The Police, composed the score for the Spyro The Dragon series.

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Aryn TIL French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
aDMJ TIL that the National Endowment for the Arts has a smaller budget than the Pentagon’s marching band
7n8b TIL Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50 percent.
yQAj8 TIL about Sea Spiders. There are over 1,000 species, and they have a leg span ranging from 1 mm to nearly 3 ft. As they age, their exoskeleton becomes riddled with small holes – enabling them to slowly grow in size.
E1ODp TIL in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".