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TIL there are dozens of musical compositions which consist of nothing but silence, including ones by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Soundgarden, Korn, Nine Inch Nails and John Denver. The Soundgarden one is a cover of the John Lennon one.

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neDwo TIL that when Thomas Edison was on his death bed, Henry Ford reportedly made an odd request for his ailing friend and asked Edison's son Charles to collect Edison's last breath and later 8 test tubes were discovered apparently with 'his last breath'.