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TIL WWE Smackdown originally aired on UPN before they merged with The WB and it became The CW

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j6VZQ TIL that before the Gregorian calendar went into effect in 1582, leap years were created differently. Instead of adding an extra, separate day to the end of the month (February 29th), they doubled February 24th during leap years, resulting in two consecutive days with the same date.
OogY6 TIL: The first evidence of domestic dogs is from 14,500 years ago where a puppy was buried with its two owners
bRGN TIL Kraftwerk thanked Coldplay for asking if they could use one of their riffs by saying something like: ‘Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z’
yV79e Today I learned that even daily recommended quantities of vitamin C are not enough to recover from a scurvy type of disease within a 6 month timeframe
Aywl TIL there are Silent Discos out there, where there can be up to three different DJs spinning music at the same time, and everyone in the club can listen to any of the DJs through headphones. Observers without headphones would see a bunch of people dancing to silence.