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TIL that the big brassy theme song of Monty Python's Life of Brian was performed by a 16-year-old girl

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b6ZN0 Today I learned Winston Churchill topped the list of greatest Britons ever lived ahead of Issac Newton, Shakespeare, Darwin and Princess Diana.
vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.
R5gpw TIL Jim Gordon, founding member of Derek & The Dominoes, prolific studio drummer (Beach Boys, Byrds, C,S & N, Elvis, Nilsson, Stone Poneys, Tom Petty, Ronstadt, Lennon, Harrison, and more) developed schizophrenia, and beat his 72 year old mother to death with a hammer and knife. He is still in jail.
4vvo TIL that Fox News threatened to sue the Simpsons in order to stop them from parodying its famously anti-democratic party agenda.
XExYk TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.