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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.

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vGJ8 TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.
6EwMQ TIL A woman was brought back to life with no ill effects 6 hours after her heart stopped beating
PYWZw TIL that birds are dinosaurs
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.
rRo7w TIL There's a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment because the explorers were unimpressed with the view at the top.