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TIL that Radiohead composed a song for the James Bond movie "Spectre" which got rejected for being too dark.

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DQ0KV TIL A large number of fossil records showed evidence of human-inflicted wounds on ancient pandas, indicating that pandas were brutally slashed to death by prehistoric man
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