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TIL that at the beginning of the song Roxane by The Police, during the intro, you can hear a strange piano chord, then Sting laughing. In fact, during the voice recording, Sting accidently sat on the piano just behind him. They decided to keep this on the final mix.

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5x1r TIL pirates kidnapped a 22 year old Julius Caesar. His charisma led the pirates to treat him as a friend. He insisted they double his ransom, which they did. He said he would crucify them when free, and it was laughed off as a playful joke. Upon release he raised a fleet, returned and crucified them
7r0lP Til MJ wanted to do a HP musical
yD7p TIL Retta’s (Dona Meagle from Parks and Recreation) aunt, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the President of Liberia; the first female head of state in Africa.
7PRZ TIL when the Spanish painter Goya was a deaf man in his 70s, he painted 14 pieces directly onto the walls of his home, all unnamed, and they include some of his most important work.
eOP4 TIL that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn’t like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn’t like the “anti-consumerism” theme of the plot – and they didn’t like the music.