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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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m1Drp TIL that Christian Holmes IV, one of the vice-presidents of Enron, was coincidentally the father of Elizabeth Holmes (CEO of Theranos), who was convicted in 2022 over a massive case of fraud within Silicon Valley.
J7PB TIL Cindarella is based on an old Greek fairy tale about a slave-girl who marries the pharaoh.
9EYQ TIL that the Junípero Serra High School JV football team recorded a historically bad season in which they failed to win a game or even score a touchdown yet they never attempted to start their backup quarterback. That backup quarterback they refused to start is 4 time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
0wwxM Short answer: Only if you’re already good
P1rXE TIL that the Great Seattle Fire which destroyed Seattle’s central business district and caused an estimated 20 million (700 million adjusted) dollars worth of damage in 1889 was caused by an overheated glue pot in a carpentry shop.