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TIL Elvis was born the year the orchestrated piece O Fortuna premiered

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ADydo TIL the very first musical guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" -- his 2nd ever show in September 1993 -- was a little-known English band called Radiohead.
9YkDp TIL except for cats, insects and songbirds, absolutely no women of any species are allowed to enter Mount Athos, a Greek peninsula self-governed by Eastern Orthodox monks, to make living in celibacy easier for them
GA7X1 TIL Pouring super-glue onto cotton or wool can start a fire.
78YPr TIL in 2013, a body of a woman was found in a water tank on the roof of a hotel in LA after guests of the hotel began complaining about low water pressure and water that was "colored black and had an unusual taste".
VMvL0 TIL that Hayao Miyazaki, producer of the Studio Ghibli, used to be able to produce 10 minutes of animation per month. He can now only produce 1 minute per month, largely due to his age.