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TIL Australian ABC’s Rage is the oldest music television program currently still in production

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KYMV9 TIL that the last queen of Madagascar befriended a French magician who was secretly employed as a spy. While performing in her court, he aided the French conquest of her nation.
jN0Ka TIL that 25% of the bones in your body are in your feet.
vpR7 TIL Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin & Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna 1913. They even walked in the same park and ate in the same coffeehouse.
16JLd TIL while filming the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), the original plan for the ending was to have the characters sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” It was later changed to “Aude Lang Syne.”
gMK94 TIL A football is a prolate spheroid, and it’s shaped that way because that’s also the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made of