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TIL that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction called Holocene extinction

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rNOG1 TIL Superstition was originally intended to be released by British guitarist Jeff Beck first, but Berry Gordy convinced Stevie Wonder to bring it out as he knew it would be a huge hit
4XEbg TIL ciabatta has only been around since 1982.
bajj TIL that Febuary the 9th, 1964, almost half (45%) of all US television viewers tuned into the same program: The Ed Sullivan Show and The Beatles
4XOaX TIL of the Floppotron, a "robot orchestra" made from obsolete drives and scanners whose stepper motors are run at different speeds to produce musical tones.
JYmv4 TIL that the South Korean government started massively subsidizing (1%+ of GDP) its entertainment industry in 1994 after realizing one Jurassic Park film made as much as the combined sales of 1.5 million Hyundai cars.