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TIL French Composer Erik Satie founded his own church named "the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor"

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9wxvm TIL Musician Harry Nilsson, whose work took him away from home often, let friends and fellow musicians stay at his London apartment while he was on the road. Cass Elliott of The Mamas & The Papas died there on July 29, 1974. Four years later Keith Moon of The Who would die in the very same room.
rRJ4M TIL Concrete Used in Ancient Rome was More Durable Than the Concrete Used Today
pD8e TIL that according to legend, everyone in America used to think tomatoes were poisonous, due to them being a member of the nightshade family. In 1820, New Jersey resident Robert Gibbon Johnson ate tomatoes in front of a large crowd to prove they were edible.
laO5 TIL Thomas Midgley who invented Ethyl, the lead-based additive to gasoline, also invented chlorofluorocarbons, which just about destroyed the ozone layer. He got polio, invented a wire-and-pulley system to get himself out of bed, and then ended up being strangled by it.
ooBR TIL that the role of April Ludgate was specifically created for Aubrey Plaza, after the casting director met her and felt she was, “weirdest girl I’ve ever met in my life.”