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TIL love is as strong as illegal drugs. When you fall in love the same part of your brain is stimulated as when you take mind-altering substances like cocaine.

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DQORp TIL: That the chorus of David Bowie's Starman is loosely based on Over The Rainbow from the film The Wizard Of Oz. Alluding to the Starman's extraterrestrial origins (over the rainbow), the octave leap on "Star-man" is identical to that of Judy Garland's "some-where" in Over The Rainbow.
69Vom TIL the first internationally available game to be released for the Nintendo Wii was not "Super Mario Galaxy" or "Wii Sports", but "Barnyard", a game based on the animated children's movie of the same name.
9YEdD TIL All Cows are female...
neRlG TIL About the underground city of Derinkuyu, located in Turkey. Large enough to hold 20 000 people and containing chapels, storage rooms and stables it was re-discovered accidentally when a Turkish man was trying to expand his home and knocked down a wall leading into the tunnel complex.
QJB7a TIL Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for 50 years holds the managerial records for most wins and most losses