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TIL that David Bowie's song 'Fame' was co-written by John Lennon. 'Fame' was Bowie's first number 1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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BgJAk TIL Dostoievsky's greatest joy was writing the character of 'Karazinov', in 'The Devils' (1872), a scurrilous portrait of his rival, the poet Turgenev. When a fire broke out on board a ship, Turgenev apparently rushed from one crewman to the next, screaming, "Save me! I am my mother's only son!".
XEElj TIL in 1903, Frank Nelson Cole received a standing ovation after an hour-long presentation during which he did not utter a single word and just did calculations on chalkboard to prove that 2^67 - 1 is a composite number.
k8y5 TIL that Bank of America hired three intelligience firms to dismantle wikileaks, instucted by the Department of Justice. Anonymous hacked these in response.
yQy5l TIL native English speakers say adjectives in a specific order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. An example of this is the normal sounding "silly old fool" vs the weird sounding "old silly fool".
8elrV TIL: Ohio has 13 counties reporting cases of "zombie deer", as of a month ago & EHD spread from biting midges are to blame