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TIL that one of the last songs to play at the World Trade Center before the towers collapsed was a cover of "How Deep is your Love"

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ADmRx TIL about four museums that focus solely on cats: one in Malaysia; one in the Netherlands, one in Lithuania, and one in the US. There's also a museum in the US dedicated to Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) statues.
vPBNj TIL about an illustrious Royal Navy ship name, passed down through four ships for one hundred and thirty five years, but for some unknown reason never used again after 1947. I present to you the history of the ‘HMS Cockchafer’
l7e9N TIL that Networks required the credits in Survivorman episodes to be 30 seconds long. Les Stroud didn't think this was long enough to appreciate his crew, he made them 45 seconds. The networks never noticed.
XEV8E TIL to please Lord Indra, Hindu god of rain, people in drought-stricken Bhopal, India "married" a frog couple. Then in light of heavy rainfall (26% more than normal) in the area, the frogs were "divorced" less than 2 months after their "wedding" in hopes the divorce would end the rain.
LmD9 TIL Sergei Bubka repeatedly and deliberately broke the world pole vault record by the smallest possible height so he could cash in on a Nike bonus with each new record. In a two-year span, he broke his own world record 14 times.