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TIL that while the song Hurt So Good by John Mellencamp never reached number one in the US, it spent more weeks in the top 10 than any other charting single during the 1980s.

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nel7P TIL that when the German army broke through French lines in 1918, a small battalion of US marines disregarded general orders to retreat and dug shallow holes with their bayonets. The German advance was stopped after six days of fierce fighting, and the marines had been given a new name-- Devil Dogs.
KOj06 TIL of Franz Reichelt,an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design
69MdY TIL Many Southern and Northwestern communities hold "Rattlesnake Round Ups" and name a "Lil Miss Snake Charmer."
bnYQ TIL that Cee lo green made a remake of fuck you in 2011 called thank you as a tribute to fire fighters and a thank you for fire fighters saving his mothers life in a car crash.
gr89W Today I learned that there is enough evidence to suggest that orca are actually an occasional predator of moose, due to the fact that moose can dive up to 20' for vegetation underwater in killer whale territories.