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TIL that Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on US television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later

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Ygbd TIL 50% of Earth’s internal heat is from radioactive decay. Earth used to be hotter, before elements with shorter half-lives were depleted.
4X0jo TIL that every then-living ex-President of the United States - Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan - was offered a guest role in The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. Only Ronald Reagan responded to the offer, politely declining.
VBAVm TIL that sometimes physicists use the supernatural in their hypothetical thought experiments in the form of demons.
P1Eeg TIL about X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism, an adult-onset, genetic movement disorder which affects individuals who descend from the Philippine Island of Panay. It is a neurodegenerative disease that evolves over the course of many years, resulting in significant disability and a shortened life span.
VNBk TIL that not all documents of the JFK assassination were released to the public. When questioned about it Chief Justice Earl told reporters that it may not be released in their lifetime. That was more than 50 years ago and in 2017 they will be made public.