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TIL that after listening to Is This It by the Strokes, lead singer of The Killers (Brandon Flowers) got so depressed at how good it was that he scrapped all the songs they had been working on except one. That song he kept was Mr. Brightside.

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N7RRb TIL about the tragic story of the The Flying Dutchman. A C-47 airplane, nicknamed The Flying Dutchman, was hit by a strong down draft of wind in New Guinea causing it to crash. The occupants who had survived carved daily entries on the door for those who would eventually find them.
loDQB TIL humans share 90% of our DNA with domestic cats
W7d1d TIL that one of the reasons for the title “Final Fantasy” is the fact that Square Enix was under threat of bankruptcy, meaning that the game may have been their last.
e0Brb TIL the Queen doesn't have a passport and doesn't need one because passports are issued in her name
d8POE TIL that in 2008 a team of medical scientists built a "bioartifical heart", where they took a cell-less heart framework and reseeded it with cells. By the eighth day, the structure was able to beat and pump like a natural heart.