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PYrNO TIL about "The Lost Chord," a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his dying brother. It was recorded onto Edison's phonograph in 1888, one of the first recordings of music ever made. The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs as is still performed today.
Mv1B TIL Bullet Proof Vests have a recommended lifespan 5 years while used in service
YpQ5x TIL a key piece of evidence in an active murder investigation, a unique pair of eyeglasses, was sent to the show "Unsolved Mysteries" for their segment profiling the case. After Robert Stack handled them with his bare hands, they were lost. An innocent man was imprisoned for two decades.
NX4dP TIL that the song “Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys is actually about their sound engineer, Mario Caldato Jr. He pissed them off and screamed that they needed to finish a song. He would push awful instrumental tracks having Adrock to yell “I can’t stand it!”
neMZ9 TIL - A British company called Aquafuel Research Ltd was commissioned by Formula E to build a pair of mobile generators that run on a fuel that is virtually emission free – glycerine