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TIL Little Richard sang "The Magic School Bus" opening theme song

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PbRw TIL The first ever webpage, made in 1990 by CERN, is still functioning today and you can browse it here…
yQbWp TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Armenian swimmer. In 1976, after completing his daily 20-km run, he came upon an accident scene where a trollybus had fallen into a reservoir. Karapetyan dived 10 meters into the water and pulled 46 people out of the bus, 20 of whom survived.
wL6wM TIL that the character "G-Man" from the Half Life video game series is inspired by the stereotypical features of an FBI agent and that the term "G-man" was a common slang term for an FBI agent meaning 'Government man'.
ARmw TIL India is the 2nd most racially intolerant country in the world, with 43.5% of the population claiming they would refuse to live next to someone of a different race.
OGO87 TIL that antivenom is made by injecting large animals like horses or sheep with non-lethal doses of venom until the animal builds up a sufficient immune response to the venom. The animal’s blood is then collected and antibodies to the venom are extracted and isolated to create purified antivenom.