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TIL Ramin Djawadi, the music composer for Game of Thrones & Westworld, has a condition called synesthesia - where he can "see" music.

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6ElkX TIL Willem Kieft, leader of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, ordered an attack on a native village after some pigs have been stolen from a colonist's farms. They later determined that the pigs were actually stolen by fellow colonists.
9W6M TIL that between 1947 & 1948 the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded prison and chain gang songs in Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries. They are incredible.
WkAgB TIL than Hispanics paradoxically live longer lives than non-Hispanic White Americans despite having lower average income and education. Researchers have not been able to find out exactly why but they believe it has to do with either lower smoking rates, stronger family connections, or healthier food
wdoM TIL: The CIA secretly pumped funds into abstract-expressionists, such as Jackson Pollack & Mark Rothko, in an attempt to make popular American freedom and expression art in contrast to rigid Soviet art
e0DVE TIL DJ Khaled used his baby son Asahd Tuck Khaled's reactions to the sounds to gauge the quality of songs for the album "Grateful" (the baby vomiting indicated best quality), and then had the baby legally declared the album's executive producer.