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TIL that the song ‘Crabbuckit’ by k-os refers to 'crab in the bucket syndrome’, in which a group of crabs in a bucket will pull down any crab trying to escape thus ensuring their collective demise.

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rRYwx TIL there is a living person still collecting a pension for Civil War service, though the war ended over 150 years ago.
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