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TIL The songwriter Robert Lopez is responsible for co-writing the songs in both Book of Mormon and Frozen. He is the youngest person to ever receive an EGOT and is the only person to achieve an EGOT twice.

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D1lGP TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language.
xJv5 TIL Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series’ run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes
POJJ TIL Andromeda is falling towards our home Galaxy at a rate of 110 kilometres per second and in 4 billion years, the two galaxies will pass through each other. 2 billion years after that, they will fall back in a permanent embrace to form a single galaxy.
JYJmB TIL that while Australia and New Zealand commemorates ANZAC Day, each year on 25 April Italy commemorates the end of Nazi occupation during World War II and the victory of the Resistance in Italy
ne7eW TIL that Colorado has more ghost towns than active municipalities