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TIL Alanis Morissette sang backup vocals on DMB Don't drink the water 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Ller TIL that during King’s March on Washington, the DOJ had appointed a person to sit next to the sound system, and in the event of a riot, to pull the sound and play a record of Mahalia Jackson’s “He’s got the Whole World in his Hands” to placate the crowd.
4mLR TIL “Space Invaders” the game was intended to always be at the same speed, but as you destroy more aliens, the computer can render faster. This is why the aliens speed up as you near the end of the level.
awDLb TIL that OkCupid found women using iPhones averaged twice as many sexual partners as those using android devices.
5VlBP TIL that the Watergate scandal began when burglars acting on behalf of the Nixon administration broke into Democratic campaign headquarters. They were caught because their lookout (posted in a hotel next door) was watching "Attack of the Puppet People" on TV and didn't notice the police arriving.
rNADM TIL that the parasite H. zschokkei is the only multicellular organism that does not rely on Oxygen for respiration. It relies on a currently undiscovered energy metabolism to sustain itself.