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TIL of the Caretaker, an artist who made eerie, disorienting music that emulates dementia and memory loss. His work, "Everywhere at the End of Time" shows the progression of a "slow death of a soul" through 6 stages.

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XVoR TIL that Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, is less effective in women weighing 165 lbs or more and virtually non effective in women weighing more than 175 lbs
LoB9 TIL, Australia has an owl so large it hunts and eats possums, called the Powerful Owl.
0dwav TIL David Bowie rejected Coldplay's collaboration request on one song in which they had, according to the band themselves, a "David Bowie-type character" by replying: "It's not a very good song, is it?"
kOwWe TIL: The Beatles song Blackbird was written in the civil rights era directly to encourage black girls as they integrated Little Rock schools. In Britain a bird is slang for girl. Interview with McCartney himself clearly stating this is attached. 16:34 in the video.
emeL TIL That Lockheed Martin is working on a hypersonic spy plane to replace the famous SR-71 Blackbird