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TIL that “The Girl from Ipanema” is the second most recorded song ever.

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grMb4 TIL that Quaker Oats produced Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
AdDo TIL that when Mr T was in the Army, He was told to chop down trees as a punishment. His sergeant didn’t specify how many to cut down so he chopped 70 trees in 4.5 hours before a stunned major superseded the order.
6EDwJ TIL Salvador Dali was a cheapskate who liked to appear generous to his friends by inviting them to fancy restaurants. When it was time to pay the bill, he would write out a check then doodle a sketch on the reverse, knowing that the restauranteur would never cash a check bearing one of his sketches
drWj TIL IBM coined and popularized the word hexadecimal because the correct latin word- sexadecimal- was too racy
JoP4 TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)