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TIL the 1998 sci-fi film “Lost in Space” is referred to by some as “the Iceberg” because it ended Titanic’s 15-week run as number one at the box office

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wOMY TIL Haydn wrote a symphony nicknamed “the Palindrome” in which halfway through the 3rd movement, it is played the same way as the beginning, only backwards.
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ANbV7 TIL that capers are flowers!
L71m TIL That Australia has 31% of the worlds uranium supply.
KOW6J TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."