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[TIL] that after Chris Hadfield’s cover of “Space Oddity” from the ISS was removed from Youtube, David Bowie signed the rights to the song over to him so the video would stay up.

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pYeJ8 TIL: "Through the Fire and Flames" was an unexpected hit by Dragon Force due to Guitar Hero and the music video was shot with only a €5000 budget and the drinking was real as by 10pm, the guitarist started drinking, and the director said to keep going. The full version was 25 minutes long.
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
J1dG1 TIL Nixon and Kissinger funded the kidnapping/assassination of a Chilean General who wanted to prevent civil war. CIA provided one of the conspirators with a life-insurance policy and “hush money”, while another received guns, ammunition and $50,000 in cash to carry out the plot.
oBE1A Today I learned that the Five (Mafia) Families of New York are still active today, along the same family (or faction) lines that began over 100 years ago
nelyd TIL that the snow in 'The Wizard of Oz' was asbestos. The Wicked Witch’s broom was made of asbestos, as was the Scarecrow’s entire outfit despite the fact that asbestos’ health risks were already known at the time in 1939.