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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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4OYw TIL that it’s not just video games that people have blamed for the actions of children. In 1979 and 1990, it was Dungeons and Dragons.
6kbZ TIL an undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a Mosque in Irvine, Calif., stirred the pot so much to entrap other Muslims to engage in “violent jihad” that he was reported to law enforcement himself by the Mosque.
gWQ7 TIL that John C. Mcginley (the actor who played Dr. Cox in Scrubs) uses girl names to refer to all his real friends. He also uses Cox’ signature whistles in regular conversation, calling it “a bad habit”.
gMny4 TIL a Coast Guard K9 is always one rank higher than their handler, signifying that the handler works for the dog instead of the other way around.
epPKJ TIL about Joachim-Raphael Boronali, an Italian painter touted by Roland Dorgelès as a pioneer of expressionism, who turned out to be a donkey named Lolo. Dorgelès would paint some blocks on canvas, then tie a brush to Lolo's tail to make scribbles. Dorgelès did this as a take-that to expressionism.