TIL about avant-garde composer John Cage whose most famous work is 4'33". For four minutes and 33 seconds, the musicians do nothing, allowing the audience to hear the environmentals of the performance hall.
TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.
Today I learned that at the end of the Mexican-American War, there was a popular movement in the US to annex All of Mexico. It was opposed by Congress, mainly because Mexico wasn't white enough.
TIL of the album, Everywhere at the end of time; a musical series consisting of six stages of music that simulate the effects of dementia over time. Each stage depicts various stages of symptoms of dementia as it progresses.
TIL: Godzilla was originally conceived to be a cross between a gorilla and whale. The name is a hybrid of the two Japanese words for those two animals