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TIL The late famous Swedish DJ Tim Bergling's stage name Avicii "means the lowest level of hell, it's just cool," Avicii told USA TODAY back in 2012. Indeed, in Buddhism, Avīci is a hell where dead who have sinned will, after enduring punishment, be reborn. Rest in peace Tim.

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wkXW TIL that in April 2011, Oklahoma passed a law allowing only the Deceased to access their own Death Certificates without a court order.
E1LGX TIL The Beatles song "Savoy Truffle" was about Eric Clapton, who at the time was having a candy addiction. George Harrison wrote the song as a warning to him.
neNed TIL Cyrano de Bergerac, Badass in the 1600s, wrote about using rocket power to get to the Moon and talking earrings (headphones) used to educate children.
AVAa TIL: Wu-Tang Clan Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard (R.I.P.) saved the life of a 4 year old girl who had gotten trapped under a car after being ran-over. ODB ran to the scene of the accident and organized a group of about a dozen onlookers to lift the car off of the little girl.
P10AJ TIL that woolly mammoth proteins were just recently directly imaged for the first time. A scientist used an electron microscope to image the collagen protein of mammoth bone at the molecular level.