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TIL Legendary musician Barry Manilow didn’t write the song called “I Write the Songs”. Instead the song was actually penned by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.

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E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.
BgxGy TIL: In 1914 The Suffragettes tried to blow up the Coronation Chair
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
wLGB6 TIL that Lemmings do not commit mass suicide, it is a myth started by a 1958 Disney film "White Wilderness" that includes footage of producers throwing Lemmings off a cliff
oBdNR TIL Camels originated in North America and crossed the Bering land bridge to Asia.