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TIL Christopher Lee at age 90 has a heavy metal concept album coming out later this year.

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GEON TIL there was a movie from 2006 called Zyzzyx Road which starred Katherine Heigl. It had a budget of $1.2 million and earned just $30 at the box office from six patrons.
GB55 TIL the longest American Presidential Inauguration was William Henry Harrison; over 2 hours and 8000+ words. He died a month later of pneumonia.
xVgrg TIL the Demon core, a fissile core that went supercritical twice in the 1940s causing the deaths of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.
X0Pa8 TIL the phrase“bleeding heart liberal” came from Pulitzer Price winning journalist, Westbrook Pegler in 1933. He used the phrase denouncing an anti-lynching bill before Congress. He also finished 3rd in Times Man of the Year behind FDR and Stalin in 1941.
D1P9V TIL that during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, many black citizens, widely believed to be immune to the disease, volunteered to deal with the dead and dying as white citizens fled the city. The immunity seems to have not actually existed, and blacks died at the same rates as whites.