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TIL Herb Alpert is still touring at 90 years old, and Biggie Smalls' hit song Hypnotize, samples Alpert's song, Rise.

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XEVjj TIL: On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He refused surgery, saying, "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
4XPaX TIL of the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway, which transmits information to embryonic cells required for proper cell differentiation.
p81bG TIL Tsar Peter the Great put a special tax on men who grew beards
Wkpj4 TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.
e08VE TIL That following the reporting of the sun newspaper on the Hillsborough disaster, almost every reader in Liverpool cancelled their subscription and most shops boycotted it, meaning that it's still very difficult to find a copy in the city over 30 years later.