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TIL Celine Dion's Olympics song, 'Hymne à l'amour', was written by Edith Piaf for her lover following his death en route to meet her in New York

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Wkbao Today I Learned that famous Albinoni Adagio in G minor was not composed by Albinoni. It was not even composed in the Baroque Era. It is a composition by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto in middle 20th century
PYjGE TIL only 16.1% of high-functioning autistic men are currently in a relationship, according to a 2017 study.
y0JV TIL after receiving the Medal of Honor for jumping on two grenades, Jacklyn H. Lucas proceeded to conquer his fear by joining the 82nd Airborne in which during training his parachute failed and fell 3,500 feet and was unscathed. Oh, and joined the Marines when he was 14.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
7rZLZ TIL "Phil McNamara was able to capture something not a lot of people get to see: the exact moment an active volcano blows its top, and the attendant shockwave. Filming off the coast of Papa New Guinea, McNamara filmed the start of the eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014." [Video]