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TIL Popeye the Sailor was originally a supporting character, intended to go away after one storyline

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rRoxy TIL co-writer of "Take Me Home, Country Roads," Bill Danoff, had never been to West Virginia and actually considered using Massachusetts in the lyrics instead. He also later went on to write and record the 1976 #1 hit "Afternoon Delight."
8eP4G TIL that Haleakalā, the shield volcano forming the Hawaiian island of Maui, has erupted an average of once per 100 years for the last 1000 years, and will erupt again in the geologically near future.
ANZQ4 TIL Woman are 14% more likely to survive a gunshot wound than men.
ADMr7 TIL: The guy who played Carlo in the Godfather shot and killed a member of the Medellin Cartel who was harassing a female patron in his casino and who had stabbed him with a broken bottle. Pablo Escobar put out a hit until he realized the target was in one of his favorite movies.
yAPX TIL Alia Shawkat (Maeby from Arrested Development) made a documentary about the strip club her father owns