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TIL Bowie’s big early influence, singer & popular actor Anthony Newley, had 12 top 40 hits, was Oscar-nominated for writing the score to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, & wrote the title song of Goldfinger

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yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.
4Ap6 TIL Jesus wasn’t necessarily a carpenter. The word Tekton (root of technology, technical) was translated to carpenter, but means more generally a skilled maker or builder in various mediums.
OGLDY TIL that honey bees are so obsessed with cleanliness that most will leave the hive when they know it’s time to die, to avoid contaminating brood and food stocks.
jQrR TIL of Beat ‘Em & Eat 'Em, a game for the Atari 2600, where the goal is to control two nude women on the street who must catch semen in their mouths that comes from a masturbating man on a rooftop.
W7OZA TIL that a Romanian Orthodox priest and four nuns were jailed after they accidentally killed another nun in 2005 during an exorcism. They mistook her schizophrenia symptoms for demonic possession.