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TIL the first name of the composer of the title music for the sitcom "ALF" is Alf.

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XEVED TIL that the main character (Milo Thatch) in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire was modeled on a man named Marc Okrand, who created the Atlantean language for the movie and is also the creator of the Klingon language from Star Trek.
b9lo4 TIL in 1998 a 23 year old man in Ohio choked to death on a live goldfish he tried to swallow on a dare. In response to if anyone would be charged for the man’s death, a police officer stated “If I dare you to jump off a bridge and you do it and you’re 23 years of age, you’re stupid.”
5YrPD TIL about The Wrecking Crew, a group of Los Angeles studio musicians that played on hundreds of now-classic records in the 1960s and '70s. Sometimes, the only members of famous bands to appear on their own records were the vocalists; the Wrecking Crew played the music.
VBpw4 TIL Of the SS Baychimo, abandoned by her crew in 1931, she floated adrift along the coast of Alaska for 38 years and was last sighted in 1969
R5RGw TIL that in 1857 a group of Utah Mormons, disguised as Native Americans, massacred 120 emigrants travelling from Arkansas to California.