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TIL in 2013, Vulture Magazine named Mazzy Star's "Fade into You" the most overused song in film and TV.

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6EADm TIL that in the middle ages Christian priests would recite "hoc est corpus", meaning "this is the body", during mass when turning bread into the body of Christ. Since nobody spoke or understood Latin, this chant was garbled into "hocus pocus", which we still use when performing magic tricks today.
MewvA TIL the author of the book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," a evangelical book on the absence of all physical contact before marriage; would eventually denounce his book, leave the church he pastored, and divorce his wife.
Vye0 TIL Roman soldiers were required to drink a minimum 1 liter of wine per day
OoeeL TIL: Dildo, unincorporated town in Newfoundland, Canada, population 1,198. “In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed”
1OX8 TIL John Cleese of Monty Python was the first person to say “Shit” on British television.