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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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9YOW7 TIL 'Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks' painting is quite large - 6'7 x 11'9 - and it took Ilya Repin eleven (!) years to complete it
XdPX TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.
Z8vgo TIL Rastafarians believe the former Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie is their God. They also believe that they will one day return to the promised land of Ethiopia to live in peace and freedom.
ZpaE4 TIL in 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain
ANXpa TIL there are 57 universities around the world with no tuition for all international students, providing free education regardless of a student's country of origin.