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TIL that the single oldest complete piece of music is actually from 1400BC. It's known as "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" and an example one can listen to is heavily contested over because it is one of about five "rival decipherments of the notation, each yielding entirely different results".

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DePV TIL applications for Mars One, the first manned mission to Mars will be accepted soon.
6EeDZ TIL During the University of Texas shooting, pregnant student Claire Wilson was shot, and her fiance killed. While Wilson lay crying out for help directly in the sniper's view, student Rita Starpattern ran to her and played dead for 90 minutes, talking to Wilson to keep her awake until help arrived.
yb9l TIL An old woman came up to Stephen King in a supermarket and said “You are the horror writer. I don’t read anything that you do. I just like things more genuine, like that Shawshank Redemption.”
woOxE TIL about Jimi Heselden, who purchased Segway in 2009. 9 months later he fell into a river while riding a Segway and died.
KObrJ TIL that in 1906, The Daily Mail hired novelist William Le Queux to write a story of the most likely path for a hypothetical German invasion of England. When that path went mostly through areas with low 'Daily Mail' readership, they ordered it rewritten to more directly impact their existing readers