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TIL Carole King wrote the song "You've Got a Friend" in response to James Taylor's "Fire and Rain", specifically the line "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend."

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4b0X TIL during the Siege of Baghdad, The Grand Library of Baghdad, containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed along with the House of Wisdom. The Tigris waters ran black with ink from the big quantities of books flung into the river
6EeX8 TIL Charles Darwin ate many exotic animals he discovered including the Galapagos turtle
kd4e TIL A group of jackalopes is called a flaggerdoot.
vP4DB TIL in 1945, 2 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, the Boston Red Sox held a sham "tryout" for him and other black players. Red Sox management shouted racial slurs from the stands and humiliated the players. The Red Sox would eventually be the last MLB team to racially integrate.
E7do TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children who are in the hospital and talks to them in character.