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TIL that Glen Campbell and Alice Cooper were “best of friends.”

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XE1x8 TIL that oranges are hybrids of mandarins and pomelos. In fact, most cultivated citrus fruits are the products of hybridization between mandarins, pomelos, and citrons.
QXEM TIL Singer Tom Waits has a song called “The Fall of Troy”, and Post-hardcore band “The Fall of Troy” have a song called “Tom Waits”
xVNeB TIL many people in Switzerland eat cat and dog meat, particularly at Christmas.
Woxo TIL that ~6000 patients a year leave U.S. operating rooms with surgical sponges, forceps, and other surgical tools left inside them. They won’t realize it until they develop a life-threatening infection.
xVWx1 TIL Some of the early Titanic lifeboats were launched half-full because many passengers preferred to stay on the warm ship, assuming that nearby ocean liners would rescue them in time.