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TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week

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9pkB TIL most of the laugh tracks you hear on TV were recorded in the 1950s, which means a lot of the people you hear laughing are dead.
8xQb TIL that Malcom X had a Scottish grandmother and the reddish hair he inherited from her inspired the nickname “Detroit Red.”
m1kjx TIL In 1991 both former Senator John Tower of Texas (head of the Tower Commission for the Iran–Contra affair) and astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter died in the same commuter plane crash in Georgia.
GkJG TIL 114 billionaires have pledged to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy as part of a project led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.(X-post from worldnews)
9lLp TIL In the Middle Ages, men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed because it was believed that the right testicle made “boy” sperm and the left made “girl” sperm.