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TIL legendary film score composer Hans Zimmer was a keyboardist for the Buggles and appeared in the first music video to air on MTV

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ywmp TIL, there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”
9wywD TIL about the Mobius Arch, a structure existing in the Alabama Hills, filming location for Iron Man the movie. Iron Man would later the Mobius Strip in discovering time travel
KYoxQ TIL about Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who lived until the age of 78 in a iron lung
W71Xo TIL of Rupert Trimmingham, a Black US soldier serving in WW2 who in 1944 wrote a letter to an Army-run magazine about being refused service in a Louisiana restaurant while German PoWs were served inside, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the 1948 integration of the US military