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TIL The band Kiss makes Kiss Kaskets and Dimebag Darrell was buried in one.

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8aGbb TIL that in 2015, musician Jennifer Lee (aka. TOKiMONSTA) contracted an extremely rare brain disease called Moyamoya. She lost her ability to understand and recognise human speech for months. During this time, she also lost her ability to understand music, calling it “metallic, harsh nonsense.”
N7PEE TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860, but was only intended to show a sound wave visually, not to be played back. In 2008, it was optically scanned and converted to a sound file, revealing it to be a man singing "Au clair de la lune".
9Yak7 TIL in 1987, production on the film Apt Pupil began with 17-year-old Rick Schroder cast as the lead. After ten weeks of filming, production suffered from lack of funds and was put on hold. A year later, Schroder had aged too much for the film to work and 40 minutes of usable footage was abandoned.
rRX0d TIL that Harrison Schmitt, an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, and former U.S. senator, is often credited with capturing the famed photograph of the Earth know as The Blue Marble, and he personally collected rock samples that suggested the moon once processed an active magnetic field.
R7p88 TIL Black Bears are killed for their skins to make Marge Simpson type hats for the Queen's Guards. In 2015, they purchased 122 hats for £1,224 each. There have been calls by animal rights groups to phase out this practice.