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TIL that 30% of American adults use Facebook as their primary source of news

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b6P90 TIL that Calixa Lavallée, the Canadian musician who composed the music for 'O Canada', spent two years as a band musician in the Union Army during the American Civil War
nmw9 TIL that the Doctor Who theme wasn’t performed on a theremin, but instead was created by the manipulation of an analog tape containing a recording of a single plucked string, white noise, and several oscillators.
GYOn7 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev’s “debut album” of romantic ballads was sold at auction in 2009 for £100,000 to fund research by his late wife’s foundation into childhood cancer. All of the songs, which Gorbachev sang himself, were favorites of his wife’s.
nW9Qo TIL a study found that George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire contains over 2,000 named characters with over 41,000 interactions b/w them. Yet the most prominent characters avg out to have only 150 others to keep track of, which is the same number the avg human brain has evolved to deal with.
4Xoxo TIL the UK gameshow 'Mastermind' is inspired by Gestapo interrogations