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TIL that one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s sons, also named John, became a Catholic priest… and was alleged to have molested children

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166aP TIL Weird Al's biggest problem with services that illegally distributed his music was that they would misattribute songs to him. Al was especially annoyed by profane songs like, "Baby Got Jack” or “Ugly Girl”.
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.
j6JNv Today I learned about moondog, an early adopter of musical minimalism.
WkbOL TIL “Big Boy” founder Bob Wian invented the double-decker hamburger 31 years before McDonalds came out with the “Big Mac,” the burger was almost an exact replica. Long live the Big Boy.
oBxvo TIL a part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound