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TIL that influenza originated as an indirect result of the domestication of pigs and ducks

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nWyY TIL that during the recording of the Prometheus soundtrack,the orchestra were given reversed music sheets to play some parts backwards to create an unsettling effect
m1kvR TIL of Black Caesar. He was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew following Blackbeard’s death at the hands of Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718.
ADrPl TIL of Alice Blunden, a woman who was so knocked out after having ingesting a large amount of poppy tea that a doctor pronounced her dead. She was quickly buried, but exhumed when people could hear her voice from the grave. She was so close to death, she was once again accidentally buried alive.
DLkr TIL the last Emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1975, almost 1000 years after the first Emperor was crowned.
JYa84 TIL that the word "sabotage" comes from the French word for clog; "sabot". When looms were industrialised, redundant workers would throw their clogs into the machinery and this became known as sabotage. It is theorised that this is also the origin of the phrase "clogged up".