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TIL that Barry Manilow didn't write his huge 1977 hit "I Write the Songs". It was actually a cover of a song first recorded by The Captain and Tenille, written by Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys.

TIL that Katherine Hepburn was a passionate and skilled golfer, and once reached the semi-finals of the Connecticut Young Women’s Championship.

TIL When Shannon Lucid arrived on Mir space station, the deputy commander noted that fans will be taken care because women love to clean. Also, her male cosmonaut crew mates will be on their best ...

TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country....

TIL about Soviet Zveno aircraft carrier planes. The converted bombers would carry fighters or dive bombers beyond their operational limitation, and launch them when needed. Despite being based on ...

TIL Canada has their own Mississippi River unrelated and unconnected to the American Mississippi River.

TIL The sea level is only 20 cm higher on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal than on the Atlantic due to the water being less dense on the Pacific side

Today I Learned that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Toda...

TIL of George Pickering, who in 2014 held a team of doctors hostage to save the life of his son, declared brain dead after a stroke. He forced them at gunpoint to keep his son on life support duri...

TIL that in 2014, a ship carrying over 420 people to Jeju in South Korea began to sink, and the captain abandoned the ship. Around 350 people died, and 260 were high-schoolers.