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TIL The Chipmunks - Alvin, Simon and Theodore - are named after executives from their creator's record label Liberty Records.

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mxQby TIL When Frank Sinatra collapsed on stage in 1994, his fans in audience included doctors and a half dozen of them ran up on stage to assist Sinatra
4Kja TIL that the same parasympathetic system that commands your colon to go to the bathroom, is also the same system that controls your tears. Sometimes, these signals get crossed which is why some people cry when they poop.
Wky79 TIL children can regrow amputated fingertips. In 2016, when a 7-year-old girl's fingertip was torn off, surgeons stuck the tip back on to protect the wound but told the parents that it would likely die. Eight days later it had died, and in its place had grown a perfectly functional new one.
X0ryE TIL In January 2016, all of the planets from Mercury to Saturn were visible together in the predawn sky about 45 minutes before sunrise
K7D9 TIL a VR experiment showed people given the power of superhero flight and told to perform search and rescue were more willing to aid others afterwards than those who were given a helicopter and told to do the same thing.