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TIL dogs can be blood donors

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5YOYR TIL the song Killing Me Softly was originally penned by Lori Lieberman, and described the night she went to a small show and listened to Don McLean singing a B-side to American Pie. It went on to be covered by Roberta Flack, then the FuGees, but Lori was never credited.
pkQ4 TIL that when he was in hiding, Salman Rushdie immersed himself in Super Mario World, and joked that the best way to liberate Iran was to drop Nintendo consoles from the sky
ANgMl TIL If a person were to start to write out a googolplex at the rate of two zeros per second, it would still take far, far longer than the age of the Universe to do it.
LkQmV TIL scientists can estimate your age using DNA.
Me5VW TIL there is a quarterly magazine called Delayed Gratification that covers the news of the previous three months.