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TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down

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PDjn TIL in the Catholic sainthood process “the Devil’s advocate”, was a canon lawyer appointed to argue against the canonization of a candidate. They would take a skeptical view of the candidate’s character, look for holes in the evidence, and argue that attributed miracles were fraudulent.
4Xyo TIL that there are planets without stars, that they could outnumber the stars in the galaxy, and could easily harbor bacterial life.
VBYpp TIL the melody of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, and the alphabet song is based on a French song from the 18th century called "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman".
9YRwX TIL Christopher Nolan got $160M for Interstellar because WB let him have a salary of $20M+20% of the total gross. This was because WB was not confident of it being a success and didn't think 20% would be much. This lack of faith in it's success was also why they let other studios co-finance the film
VBpr4 TIL Florence and the Machine was originally known as Florence Robot/Isa Machine, where Florence Robot was founding member Florence Welch, and Isa Machine was founding member Isabella Summers. Summers serves as the bands keyboardist, as well as songwriter and producer.