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TIL that Kermit the Frog was inducted into the Library of Congress in their National Recording Registry for his song "The Rainbow Connection."

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pvBA TIL villagers living in Fucking, Austria voted to change its name to ‘Fugging’. Vote failed since another village by the same name existed whose earlier name was also 'fucking’ surprisingly.
bE0Q TIL Aborigines were chained by the neck and force fed salt to help explorers find waterholes in arid Western Australia
9Ym5X TIL Porphyria, a medical condition that causes severe pain and burning to the skin upon exposure to sunlight, is a likely explanation to werewolf and vampire legends.
rRgKx TIL that in 1999, an improperly set up hot tub at a garden show in Bovenkarspel, The Netherlands, caused an outbreak of 206 cases of Legionnaire’s disease and 32 confirmed deaths
ZpKrD TIL on March 1st, 1504, Christopher Columbus convinced the inhabitants of Jamaica to keep provisioning him by threatening to take away the moon.