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TIL in 2015, Google dropped their old motto “Don’t Be Evil”

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4XMM5 TIL that the original and mostly forgotten theme song for the 1963 pilot of Gilligan's Island was written by John Williams - then only a few years into his musical career.
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ANQWa TIL the first Grammy for The Pointer Sisters was a country song, Fairytale. The song’s success led to them become the first Black group to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
p861b TIL in Korean, the word 동무 (同務/tongmu) was originally used to mean "friend" across the whole of Korea. After the North began to use it as a translation of the comrade, the word has fallen out of use in the south. instead, the south started to use 친구 (親舊/chingu) to mean friend
gM06b TIL that Napoleon fought more then 70 battles in his career and lost only 8, mostly at the end