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TIL film score composer Hans Zimmer played synths in the first ever music video that was aired on MTV (video killed the radio star)

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x9lw TIL that in 1484, Pope Innocent VIII condemned cats as unholy creatures, causing thousands of cats to be burned alive.
PPNZ TIL that Stalin believed religion to be a blight upon communist society. Over 100,000 members of the Russian Orthodox clergy were killed by the regime between 1937 and 1941.
oBGgR TIL that in the Guinness breweries in Ireland catholic workers were not allowed to obtain management positions until the 1960s
EXxw TIL it’s possible to be declared brain-dead falsely because most physicians look at the brain stem, which controls heart and lung functions, but not the cortex, which coordinates consciousness
rQpW TIL Richard Dennis turned $400 into $200 million on the stock market. To prove wrong the people who said his fortune was due to luck, he picked up a group of people off the street with no previous experience and taught them how to trade. In 5 years, they made $175 million using his strategies.