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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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nWegP TIL a non-smoking, 65-year-old male in excellent health today has a 43% probability of living to age 90, and a similar 65-year-old female has a 54% probability of living to 90
l71Er TIL Trinity College Dublin's oldest PhD graduated at 84 with her thesis "Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension" She wondered, why are the Harry Potter books, which are written for children, so popular with adults?
J1lOm TIL that Eros, the god of love and the Greek equivalent of Cupid, is one of the oldest Greek gods. He is older than Zeus and all the other Olympian gods, with only Gaia and Chaos being older than him.
J1jpv TIL that despite being organisms with highly intricate nervous systems and an impressive level of intelligence, many octopus species only live for roughly 1-5 years.
Yp7rZ TIL that Isaac Newton, who revolutionized mathematics and physics, spent almost as much time writing about and studying alchemy, and firmly believed in its viability as a science.