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TIL Brian Wilson was deaf in his right ear, and thus mixed the Beach Boys' albums in mono because that was the only way he could hear them.

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GY5pj TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs, named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
xVRe0 TIL Brad Fiedel, when composing the now-iconic score for The Terminator, accidentally programmed his musical equipment to the unusual time signature of 13/16 instead of the more conventional 7/8. Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of the signature and decided to keep it.
6V8m TIL the iconic Wayfarer sunglasses went almost extinct in the early 1980s, until Ray-Ban signed a product placement deal incorporating them into 60 films and television shows a year.
wL9Lo TIL Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. A child prodigy, he joined the L.A. Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
9YGmG TIL of the Order of Victory, the highest award in WWII for the Soviet Union. It has 19 recipients, with five non-Soviets awarded: Dwight D. Eisenhower (USA), Bernard Montgomery (UK), Michael I (Romania), Michał Rola-Żymierskim (Poland) and Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)