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9P4r TIL that an executive defeated Bill Gates 35 out of 37 in a video game, when they met again a month later Gates “won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.”
LkPQ9 TIL that the famous fossil Lucy was named after the Beatle’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing in the palaeontologist’s camp when she was unearthed
jNlgp TIL that the Kingsmen song "Louie Louie" (which was investigated for indecency by the FBI for 31 months, which turned up nothing) did in fact contain swear word that was never detected by the FBI: the drummer audibly shouts "F***!" at approx. 0:55, when he dropped a drumstick during recording.
6EL48 TIL the male vocals in Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life" were added because radio stations thought the song was "too feminine."
yVLyp TIL that the concept of curvature in space-time giving rise to matter and gravitation was predicted in 1870 by William Kingdon Clifford (although not rigorously proving it like Einstein managed)