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TIL that during “the Battle of Britpop” in the mid-1990s, Noel Gallagher of Oasis said he hoped members of rival band Blur would “catch AIDS and die.”

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VMaAD TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”
D1MeV TIL future Martian settlements will likely be set up inside Mars' large lava tubes. These tubes are effectively caverns with roofs tens of meters thick and with stable ambient temperature. They would protect human settlers and human technology from the extreme conditions that exist on the surface.
5V4Ln TIL in 2013, the Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Oregon changed its protocols on using olive oil to remove EEG electrode glue after a young patient who had olive oil and hand sanitizer on her shirt suffered second- and third-degree burns after she generated static electricity with bed linen.
yQoyv TIL 'Tubular Bells' (famously used in, 'The Exorcist') is an album released in 1973 consisting of two complex, twenty-plus minute instrumental compositions. Both of which were written, played and recorded by a 19 year old Mike Oldfield.
8jbZ TIL that J.R.R.Tolkien (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) and C.S.Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) were friends at Oxford. They organised a literary group for budding writers who would share their stories over lunch and a beer in the same pub every Tuesday.