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TIL that Hans Zimmer was in the very first video to play on MTV back in August 1, 1981.

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ANrj7 TIL That J.K. Simmons played an anti-communist U.S. President Howard T. Ackerman in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Parodying the 2008 Presidential election, he was in ads that had Ackerman as an alternative to the other candidates. He gained 43 votes as a write-in candidate.
QJ7DE TIL Noise Cancelling and Noise Isolating don’t mean thing. Noise isolating headphones only reduce the volume of the incoming ambient sound whereas noise canceling headphones actively send back an inverted signal to completely block out ambient sound.
mxnoE TIL: Wesley Autrey, a man who saved a student’s life after they had a seizure and fell onto the tracks at a station. A train was approaching. Westley leapt onto the tracks and threw himself over the student. All but two cars still passed over them, close enough to leave grease on Westley’s cap.
jNbda TIL Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame, who also composed the themes for many Hollywood hits like Back To School, Beetlejuice, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black, & Edward Scissorhands, was rejected from his elementary school orchestra "for having no propensity for music."
0wvkv TIL How Bono from the band U2 exercised one of his newly given rights after receiving Dublin's Freedom of the City award. One of these ancient privileges was the right to pasture sheep on common ground within city boundaries. To celebrate he took lambs to graze on St Stephen's Green.