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TIL that creativity and mental illness are chemical cousins

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kJard TIL Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin wrote the Mission:Impossible theme for the 1960s TV series. The main rhythm is based on the Morse code for the letters M and I (--..) in a 5/4 time signature.
Xpkk TIL Most wasabi eaten in the United States is actually just a blend of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring due to the prices of real wasabi.
7rRwO TIL Blue Macaw parrot from the movie 'Rio' is now officially extinct. A study released in September found that the Blue Macaw is extinct in the wild along with seven other bird species.
x6XrD TIL Edmonton built an experimental suburban community with innovative street design in the 1980s over land that used to contain a garbage dump. It's estimated about 85 per cent of the world's cultures are represented there
nBZG TIL that Jimmy Diresta shot and produced an instructional DVD for Nick Offerman in 2008. Offerman paid him with a canoe.