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TIL the grandmother of Rush's bass player Geddy Lee saved his family in the concentration camps during WWII

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695pJ TIL that Samuel Morse had high expectations of establishing himself as a professional artist. Disillusioned by failure, Morse ceased painting in 1837 at the age of forty-six, and devoted the last thirty-five years of his life to perfecting the electromagnetic telegraph.
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4jwo TIL When Alexander the Great was invading India he learnt of a Brahmin who lived in the woods. He visited him and the Brahmin replied, “You will soon be dead, and then you will own just as much of this earth as will suffice to bury you”. Alexander approved of this sentiment and left him in peace.
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Bgpar TIL Michael Jackson's early hit "Ben" (1972) was written for a horror movie with the same name featuring killer rats. Crispin Glover later recorded a cover version in 2003.