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TIL after nearly twenty years in TV & film, Star Wars was John Williams first symphonic score, ushering a new age of symphonic film scoring for films and a new popular market for film scores sold separately on media

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ZgJB TIL that in Europe, 92% of expecting parents terminate pregnancy upon receiving a Down Syndrome diagnosis. In America, 67%.
b64O7 TIL Steller’s sea cows were massive, docile animals that were exterminated less than 30 years after the species was first discovered.
VMDgG TIL Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
KZVR TIL that Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades in Greek mythology, takes his name from the Greek word “kerberos”. Kerberos means “spotted”, which means Hades literally named his dog “Spot”.
Y7YgG TIL of Marozia, who was (allegedly) the mistress of Pope Pope Sergius III, the mother of Pope John XI, the grandmother of Pope John XII and Pope Benedict VII and the great-grandmother of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX and great-great-grandmother of Pope Benedict IX