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TIL Warwick Davis has the most Lego Minifigures with Seven

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xnYB TIL Scatman John’s 1994 hit came after a long jazz piano career, non-vocal due to a debilitating stutter. He later saw scatting as purposeful stuttering to be used w/ his lyrics to remove shame. He went on to hit #1 in 14 countries, 32 Platinum & Golds, & break world records for music sales @53 y.o.
Med8A TIL cult leader Jim jones was once a civil rights leader
W7AaB TIL Mushroom can Play Keyboard and Paint. Researchers hooked oyster mushrooms to sensors that read their bio‑electrical activity, then fed those signals into a robotic arm that could press piano keys or move a paintbrush.
VB1PB TIL about the Obliteration Room housed in London where visitors are invited to cover over with stickers to eliminate the traces of the original white room through the act of communal “obliteration.”
WK7Y TIL there is a “zip bomb” called 42.zip that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.