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TIL Survivor’s “Eye Of The Tiger” was written at the request of actor Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”.

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GYoxj TIL that in July 2012 an unusually large and strong release of magnetized plasma from the Sun missed the Earth by around nine days. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electric equipment (mostly telegraph stations) worldwide.
Brk9x TIL that bebop legend Dizzy Gillespie ran for president in 1964. Though it started as a joke, he kept it up in part because proceeds from his campaign merchandise went to CORE, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
W7jr4 TIL that in 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for his alleged anti-government activities with a radical intellectual group. He had already been marched out to the firing squad and was standing before the executioners when the order came through to spare him.
nedRP TIL that the tadpoles of frogs are mostly herbivores, but the tadpoles of salamanders and caecilians are carnivorous
KA6E TIL the minimum wage is Australia is $15.96/hr ($16.33 USD)