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TIL that Angela Morley, the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, was John Williams’ primary orchestrator throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She helped write and arrange the scores for Star Wars, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Home Alone, Superman, and Schindler’s List.

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mxljO TIL of the Corrupted Blood incident, an unintentional glitch in World of Warcraft that simulated the spread of a deadly pandemic. It was later studied by epidemiologists due to the reaction of the gamers and its resemblance to the general populace.
kP9E TIL Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826-1875) had psychological issues that led her to believe she had swallowed a glass grand piano.
loX9a TIL that the first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. Also, the ancient Irish, Scots, Norsemen, and Finns loved and valued butter so much they were buried with barrels of it.
j7GE TIL of a potential plan to connect London-to-Moscow-to-New York
xV6Ng TIL if your brain was cut down the middle the two halves would function independently, almost like another person is sharing your body.