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TIL about The Massacre of Black Wall Street.

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wBGM TIL H. Jon Benjamin, voice actor for Sterling Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers, made a jazz album entitled “Well, I should have…” (subtitled “learned to play piano”). He plays jazz piano on the album. He does not know how to play piano.
epV7E TIL On the soundtrack to Batman Begins, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard named all the tracks after the scientific names of Bats and Tracks 4 - 9 Barbastella, Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous, and Nycterus, spell out BATMAN.
epmGD TIL the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco flushed decorative algae into the Mediterranean Sea, creating an invasive patch of algae that has now spread over 190km of coast.
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LQgld TIL The biological father of Martin Gore, founding member of Depeche Mode and its musical driving force, and key figure in the New Wave, Synth Pop, and Alternative Dance music genres, is African American. Gore himself only learned when he turned 30 and has since visited him in the American south.