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TIL that George Lucas was one of the camera operators at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert where a fan was stabbed to death

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Gk6J TIL Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall” was banned on this day in 1980 from South Africa because it had “become the anthem of a national strike of more than 10,000 "coloured” (mixed) students and their white supporters.“
wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.
ADvZl TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.
KanJ TIL With funds from ALS 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, scientists found a gene called NEK1 and can now develop gene therapy to treat inherited ALS
LDmv TIL A tribe of Asian pygmies called the Taron are purposely letting themselves go extinct. They are a pure and isolated race, but inbreeding has caused deformities and mental issues that have prompted their decision to die out and have thusly dwindled down to 12.