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TIL Rick Astley sung back up vocals on Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”

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vN5D TIL That despite being on hard times, One of the US most decorated war veterans repeatedly turned down offers to appear in Alcohol and Tobacco commercials because he knew it would be a bad role model for young people. The soldier, Audie Murphy, had won every single US Army Award for combat in WWII.
m10Wx TIL that there is a town in Upstate New York called Neversink, Ironically, the original Neversink was permanently flooded when the Neversink reservoir was built.
OovwY TIL Weddellite crystals can be found at the bottom of a sea near Antarctica and in kidney stones in the human body.
ndJ9 TIL A woodpeckers tongue wraps around its head to prevent it from getting headaches when slamming its face into trees
OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”