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TIL that dragonflies are the world's most successful predator!

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5JjB TIL in 1989 a Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. It contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It turned out to be footage for Nine Inch Nails’ first music video, filmed 200 miles away.
4XJnJ TIL Yoko Shimomura, creator of the famous “Guile’s Theme” from Street Fighter II, wrote a nocturne in dedication to the rap artist XXXTentacion after he passed.
4k61o TIL composer Robert Schumann would often plunge his hands into the entrails of a dead animal to cure any illness he was suffering from.
v7wr TIL Neanderthals built underground buildings out of stalagmites 175,000 years ago.
yQ8pl TIL that in 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. This eventually forced the dictator to surrender.