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TIL how Sir John Ambrose Fleming revolutionized electronics as we know it today.

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7l67 TIL Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organisers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem”.
Aa7w TIL Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it “devil’s beverage”. After tasting the beverage, the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was “… so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it”.
6oJY TIL that Kyu Sakamoto was the first Asian to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963 with “Sukiyaki”; the only Japanese song to top the chart. Tragically, he died in a plane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.
R7GW4 TIL that after 20 years in a coma, a man was claimed to be aware and suffering from locked-in syndrome. These claims were proven to be a hoax.
xBlo TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.