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TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'

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gYr9 TIL fidgeting (such as tapping your feet or drumming your fingers) can burn up to 350 calories a day and is a common trait of lean/skinny individuals
VBlBm TIL that for 2 years Ghanaian and foreign scientists investigated what they thought was a monkey-borne outbreak stemming from a large forest, only for it later to be revealed the area had neither a forest nor any monkeys and was in fact a large industrial city.
96MX TIL, Lucifer as a proper name was not originally in the book of Isaiah, as the word Lucifer is of latin origin which did not exist when Isaiah was written, and stems from a mistranslation in the King James Version of the bible. The original hebrew text may even be about a Babylonian king.
R7AN1 TIL that General Douglas MacArthur's father was a colonel in the American Civil War. So when MacArthur considered using Nukes during the Korean War, the son of a Civil War officer was wielding a nuclear arsenal.
Lor0 TIL that the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.