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TIL Rabbits can scream

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VAp TIL in 2011, the main menu theme for Civilization IV (“Baba Yetu”) was the first original musical composition from a video game to win a Grammy.
D1QWD TIL the word "dashboard" originated as a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" (thrown up) by the horses' hooves.
yVllX TIL about "The Golden Evening", a night in July 189 when an American magazine editor JM Stoddart had dinner with Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde and contracted stories from each. Doyle wrote "The Sign Of Four" and Wilde wrote "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as a result. Both now classics.
8eA8V TIL George Michael have 10 no.1 hits songs on Billboard Hot 100 including 2 from Wham! (former band) and he wrote (except Careless Whisper with Andrew Ridgely) and produced them all by himself.
lodPV TIL about Benson rafts, huge rafts up to 1000 feet long made of thousands of logs lashed together that used to be floated across 1,100 miles of open ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River to San Diego as a cheaper alternative to sending the logs by rail.