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TIL the Futurama theme song is a remix of the song Psyche Rock by Pierre Henry from 1967

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xPOg TIL that a volcanic eruption, over 70,000 years ago, was so destructive that it may have left only 10,000 humans on the planet
X0GxP TIL we estimate humans began wearing clothes 70,000 years ago because that's when head lice diverged genetically from body lice.
6E46m TIL in 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that film studios can't own movie theaters, thus breaking up their oligopoly. Before its ruling, Hollywood studios owned movie theaters to hold exclusive rights of showing their films, angering independent producers including Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin.
Oo4A1 TIL that the two sides in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire to watch Pelé when he and his team came to visit Nigeria in 1967.
b9QvQ Today I learned that Borges, Neruda and Nabokov were the losers of the controversial 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature which was awarded to Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokov.