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TIL session drummer Hal Blaine (1929 - 2019) of the famous Wrecking Crew played on over 35,000 recordings, including 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which were #1 hits.

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OGXbg TIL about the Lombard queen Rosamund. Taken as a prisoner after her father, last king of the Gepids, lost a war to the Lombardic king Alboin who took her as his wife. He was notably cruel to her, making her drink from her fathers skull at a banquet and she later instigated his assassination.
gMW0W TIL the popular Vine "Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal" was created by Ryan McHenry. McHenry was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma cancer and passed after battling for a year. In a tribute to McHenry, actor Ryan Gosling created a Vine account and ate a bowl of cereal.
Mer47 TIL one way the Romans measured time was through Saeculum - the period of time from the moment an event occurred (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who were alive to see it happen were dead.
awEvN TIL Irish villagers in Ringaskiddy, Ireland report that fumes from a local factory that makes Viagra are giving men erections, and citizens speak of a baby boom after the factory's opening. Local bartender Debbie O'Grady said: "One whiff and you're stiff."
b1eE TIL An American Airforce Sergeant found a dead General while he was on his way to work at area 25, a nuclear test area in Nevada. It turns out the General had ejected while flying a captured Russian Mig at Mach 2. The force of the air at that speed instantly snapped his neck and killed him.