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TIL that while attending an Orchestra Manoeuvers In The Dark concert at SXSW Patrick Fagerberg was hit on the head by a 400-pound camera boom after it fell on the audience. Fagerberg developed Savant syndrome from the accident and became a professional painter.

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b9Wk4 TIL about the Kearny fallout meter, designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack, using common household items
WQQd TIL several species of animals have never been proven by scientists to actually die of old age. It is believed that these animals may be immortal or may age so slowly that humans cannot detect the process. The phenomenon is called “negligible senescence”
X0nXP TIL Morrissey had security search his fans for meat products on the way into one of his gigs in 2011. Morrissey who is vegetarian, had previously stopped a gig because someone was throwing sausages at him
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KOMDB TIL after his friend's eyes froze over from removing fogged goggles during a test flight, John Macready began working with Bausch & Lomb to create goggles better suited for flights into the upper atmosphere. Using his original shape, tint and fit, the design would become the Ray-Ban Aviators.