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TIL The father of the Sherman Brothers wrote the music to Living in the Sunlight in 1930, which was popularized by Spongebob

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DQg9v TIL of the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall , her daughter Melanie Griffith and Noel's two sons. It has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" in which they used wild, untrained animals. Although no deaths occured, numerous serious injuries did.
78JRp TIL that horses don't smile, it's their "Flehmen Response"
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6A1J TIL that the Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938, only 645 made it, and each one was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule, and a horse.
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