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TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story where a time traveling safari hunter accidentally crushes a butterfly under his boot in the Cretaceous period, thereby changing the course of history millions of years later. He wrote the story two decades before the term “Butterfly Effect” first came into use.

wj4E TIL David Cope created a piece of software called Emily Howell, which could analyze sheet music of an artist and then write songs in the artist’s style. When professional musicians and reviewers were asked which song was written by Beethoven and which by Emily, most were unsure or wrong.
69gp8 TIL Billie Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award when she won Best Original Song for the theme to the James Bond film "No Time To Die"
D1vQj TIL that when the first American space station, Skylab, crashed to Earth, it landed in Australia. In response, the Australian government issued the US a $400 fine for littering which the US left unpaid for years until a radio DJ in California caught wind of it and raised the money to pay the fine
KvmQ TIL that in 1991 Canada’s Prince of Pot Marc Emery was given one year probation for selling copies of 2 Live Crew’s rap CD As Nasty As They Wanna Be which had been deemed obscene and banned in Ontario, CANADA.
pYvJ4 TIL that in the 18th century medical professionals used tobacco smoke enemas to treat ailments from the cold to cholera. Before the use of bellows became the norm the people administering the procedure needed to be careful if they started coughing and accidentally inhaling enema particulates.