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TIL Hans Zimmer, composer extraordinaire behind Interstellar among others, played synthesizers with The Buggles ("Video Killed the Radio Star").

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P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
4W1o TIL that wolverines are being trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors, because they are naturally inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below the snow and eat them.
BgYLe TIL that before the 1666 fire, Old St Paul’s Cathedral doubled as London’s gossip hub: “news-mongers” paced its nave for the latest talk. A contemporary playwright said Paul’s Walk was an “open house” where people “go up and down… grumbling together,” amid beggars, thieves and prostitutes.
PnLw TIL that according to a recent report from the FCC, the average cable bill rose four times the rate of inflation in 2012. More than three-quarters of American households have no choice in a local cable provider.
oBK7W TIL that Blackpanthers planned a free breakfast program for children but the Chicago cops broke into the church they were holding it in the night before and Urinated on all the food. Regardless of the delay the program continued and fed tens of thousands of hungry kids over the span of many years.