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TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff

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GYEnN TIL about Georgy Malenkov. He was briefly in charge of the USSR between Stalin and Khrushchev. He left politics shortly after his reign and managed to live until 1988.
4kNlX TIL that in 1939, a test cricket match between England and South Africa lasted for 12 days. It was eventually abandoned so that the English team could catch a ship back to the United Kingdom. That was the last "timeless test". Modern test cricket matches end in a draw after 5 days.
XE9Vk TIL the earliest home TV recording was discovered in 1996. Done in London in 1933 (when only a few thousand 30-line TVs existed) using a phonograph recorder to record the audible TV signal transmitted after the regular BBC radio broadcast ended at 11 PM. It was 4 minutes of dancing girls.
gMpey TIL about triplets that were deliberately separated at birth by their adoption agency. After investigative journalist, Lawrence Wright, looked into the matter, it was revealed the triplets were part of a scientific experiment by Dr. Peter B. Neubauer.
epdVg TIL after Surtsey volcano emerged from the sea in the 60's, it was declared a reserve to study how life expands to new territories, and only a few humans are allowed to visit with multiple precautions, including ensuring that they don't spread viable seeds in their excrement.