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TIL A woman reported missing 42 years earlier was found sitting dead in front of her TV. Her apartment was like a time capsule.

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XEJdr TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."
Eg1x TIL it was claimed the reason the character Tracy replaced Brock in the cast of Pokemon was because it was thought he might be perceived as a racist stereotype because of his eyes. They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared.
E1ado TIL that musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.
8Dd8 TIL that the Prairie Vole (a rodent) is monogamous, while its closest relative the Montane Vole is promiscuous. The ADH receptor gene between the two species is different and cause different behavior. The same gene was injected into a laboratory mouse that showed monogamous behavior afterwards.
wobp1 TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic never got permissions from Prince to record parodies of his songs. Once, before the American Music Awards where he and Prince were assigned to sit in the same row, he got a telegram from Prince's management company, demanding he not even make eye contact with the artist.