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TIL Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" was originally never intended to be released as a single. When Hawaiian DJ Pablo Sato downloaded the album from an MP3 site, he played the song on American radio the next day. Within a couple of days, it was the number-one requested song.

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VMw0Z TIL that in 1923, Frank Hayes became the first ever jockey to win a horse race despite being dead. He died from a heart attack mid-race but somehow his body stayed strapped onto the horse and he crossed the finish line in first place, beating 20-1 odds.
kOw1e TIL of the Murchison meteorite, which fell to earth in 1969. It contained high levels of organic compounds, came from a parent body that had liquid water, and the amino acids it contained could not have been synthesized on earth because they consisted of both left- and right- isomers.
XE6yj TIL of Patch Hurty, a six-year-old from Connecticut who wrote letters to over 50 car brands and asked for their badges. Not only did most companies send him badging, but some added extra goodies, like a Lincoln Continental pencil sketch.
16BDV TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal
xVbEB TIL that there is a litigation defense strategy used by authors when defaming people dubbed ‘the small penis rule’. The author, when describing a character, will add that they have a small penis, assuming that nobody would sue them for libel and admit to having a small penis.