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TIL the Super Mario Bros. theme song has lyrics

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Vjop TIL screws were invented nearly 1000 years before screwdrivers.
KOGrE TIL of the infamous "Chicken Incident", when a chicken made its way on the stage of an Alice Cooper gig. Cooper, thinking a chicken would fly, picked it up and proceeded to throw it onto the crowd. It landed on the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who then teared the chicken to pieces.
JVLB TIL the United states never ratified two protocols of the Geneva convention including the outlaw of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations.
loagA TIL soaps have been made for millennia. Alongside making fire and cooking food, turning oils and fats into soap is one of the oldest and simplest chemical reactions known to humankind. It is believed that the first soaps were accidentally made by fat dripping into the ashes of cooking fires.
6EYvw TIL that a hitchhiking robot, named HitchBOT, (who successfully hitchhiked across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany) was ”murdered” in Philly; shortly after beginning its journey in the USA.