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TIL Eminem composed ‘Lose Yourself’ entirely during breaks between shoots on the sets of 8 Mile.

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ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
BrwbK TIL the computer term "software bug" is because a moth got stuck in a Mark II relay, causing errors in their computer output
Kl7E TIL That Manteo Mitchell broke his fibula while running the 400m relay in the Olympics, but kept on running
Y7paA TIL the last independent ancient Greek state was in India
bXw0 TIL that if there was no space between electrons and the nucleus of an atom, the entire human race could fit into the volume of a sugar cube.