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TIL Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke, does not know how to read music. He says sheet music is an “ineffective way of doing it.”

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8Vd4 TIL that when electricity was first used for other purposes other than lighting electricity companies charged more for non lighting electricity. This lead to people creating light bulb sockets adapters to plug in other devices like toasters.
PdJg TIL Tesla cars have a “bioweapon defense mode” utilising positive cabin pressure to protect occupants from the dangers outside.
VMkZB TIL on two separate occasions, Lance Sergeant Johnson Beharry was leading a convoy of vehicles when his vehicle was hit by RPGs. On both occasions, his commander and others inside the vehicle were wounded. Both times he drove his burning vehicle out of the ambush, despite suffering head injuries.
x6bO1 TIL the Big Bang theory was discovered by a Catholic Priest
ADl6w TIL that one of Russia's deadliest contract killers, Alexander Solonik, was credited with 43 kills. He was killed in 1997 by another contract killer sent by the mob he was working for.