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TIL that the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy" developed out of a conversation between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green talking about ways in which they could make people think we were crazy. CeeLo took the conversation, turned it into "Crazy" and recorded it in one take

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PYGkV TIL Red squirrels make mushroom jerky, hanging fungi on tree branches to dry for winter storage
oBE5L TIL: Figure Skating got its name from skaters' abilities to trace patterns on the ice to be judged for motor control and accuracy. The rise of broadcasting the sport made the art difficult to follow on TV, so tracing was dropped in 1991, and younger athletes began winning based on difficult leaping.
VBGBk TIL that the voice actor for MGS's Solid Snake & Big Boss, David Hayter, also wrote [or co-wrote] the screenplays for the first two X-Men movies, 2009's Watchmen, the first Scorpion King movie, and is working on an upcoming Voltron movie
9wpdB TIL that the white flames shooting from the exhaust of top fuel dragsters is not from unburned fuel but is because the exhaust is so incredibly hot it breaks down the water vapor in the intake air to hydrogen and oxygen which makes the white exhaust flames.
AD5Lx TIL of ‘The Vanishing Lake’ in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which fills and empties frequently but unpredictably due to unknown geological conditions. There are three streams flowing into the lake but none out. It is said that on nights when the lake is full, a ghost haunts the shoreline.