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TIL that 25 year-old Clare Torry, who provided the wordless vocals for Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” from their iconic album Dark Side of the Moon, completed her recording session in two and a half takes. She was paid £30 for her performance.

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Lv8m TIL a American dentist secretly drilled “Remember Pearl Harbor” in morse code, into the dentures of captured Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo.
ep0yg TIL that onboard Apollo 10's mission to orbit the moon, there was an emergency when one of the astronaut's poop got loose and floated around the ship. All three astronauts denied responsibility. This came to light when the mission transcripts were declassified
wLL96 TIL that Prince was Prince's real name(Prince Rogers Nelson), but after a contractual dispute with W.Bros. he changed his stage name to an unpronouncable symbol earning himself the name "The Artist Formally Know as Prince" and "forcing a mass mailing of floppy disks with custom font."
eGrE TIL the Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife. When she had to be hospitalized in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds
vEg4 TIL the Chinese have a version of Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch called the Yeren – and there is Youtube footage of a supposed half-human/half-Yeren from a remote Chinese village