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TIL: the internet has its own internal weather and you can observe it

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4WWX TIL John Geoghan, the Catholic priest who sexually abused over 130 children and was a central figure in the Best Picture winner Spotlight, was strangled and stomped to death in prison by a self-described white supremacist serving a life sentence for murder.
jNKNj TIL Robin Williams was offered the role of The Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film as leverage to ensure Jack Nicholson accepted the part. As a result, Robin Williams refused to act in any Warner Bros films until the company apologized.
yQdOa TIL The Phil Donahue show was cancelled by MSNBC three weeks before the invasion of Iraq. Donahue had previously lost support after he expressed his feelings regarding the first Gulf War. General Electric who owned MSNBC at the time was also a major defense contractor removed the show and fired him
694VJ TIL Ace of Base original lineup consisted of three siblings, a brother and two sisters. They were signed to their first contract after a record exec rejected their song "All That She Wants" but got their demo stuck in his car's tape deck and finally decided he liked it. It went straight to no. 1.
epBrD TIL about Absolute Music, music that is not explicitly "about" anything. The debate over whether music has, or ought to have, extramusical meaning, has been subject to debate since at least the 19th century.