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TIL that what we refer to today as "elevator music" is actually the result of a 1940s Stimulus Progression campaign from the Muzak company. Though based on pseudoscience, this campaign brought easy listening music into commercial places to influence moods and encourage consumers to buy more

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v1MVr TIL Reinhold Messner the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level. And the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
oQPL TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
JYO8B TIL: Betty White holds the record for "longest television career of any female or male entertainer."
VBgk8 TIL the original Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger have been on display at The New York Public Library since 1987. They originally belonged to Christopher Robin Milne, whose father decided to make a bedtime story about the characters.
8XRG TIL that a former child model once known as “Britain’s Little Angel” ended up in jail after murdering a doctor while high on cocaine.