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TIL The 'MAS*H' theme song "Suicide Is Painless" was written by a 14-year-old and meant to be "stupid."

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woAvW TIL that Emperor Xuan of Han spent his early years being raised in a prison
Z8BAB TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.
6EdWY TIL: The younger son of US President Calvin Coolidge died from an infected blister he got playing tennis without wearing socks.
rvOy TIL in the 1960’s, US spy planes were taking photos of Cuba. Those who analyzed them noticed something peculiar. They were building soccer fields. Cubans don’t like soccer, they like baseball. Russians like soccer. This is how the Cuban Missile Crisis started.
Lkaed TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.