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TIL The guy who made the music for Spyro the Dragon is also the drummer for The Police.

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rNVwy TIL that there were more Commonwealth (British and Canadian) than American troops that landed on the beaches at Normandy on D-Day
omRL TIL that Teflon (PTFE) is the only substance that a gecko cannot climb.
ADlWn TIL that the modern fairy tale version of 'Beauty and the Beast' can be traced back almost 300 years to French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneu in 1740, but research seems to indicate that the story of Beauty And The Beast is about 4,000 years old (as is Rumpelstiltskin).
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