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TIL that David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" was written as a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way", which in turn was based off the French song "Comme d'habitude"

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X050k TIL A 2014 linguistics study on filler words found that 1) women use “um” ~22% more than men, 2) men say “uh” 250% more than women, & 3) men use filler words ~38% more than women
x6EK5 TIL Paul Rusesabagina, the protagonist of the film Hotel Rwanda (played by Don Cheadle) that protected 1200 people during the Rwandan Genocide, was arrested in 2020 on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Following international condemnation, he was released in 2023.
nW4dW TIL about the nasal cycle - many people mostly breathe (75%) through one nostril at a time and the dominant nostril alternates throughout the day. You can actually feel which one is dominanting now if you focus.
eRAD TIL: After the Chernobyl disaster, the soviets held a “May Day” parade to calm the public. The parade was exposed to deadly levels of radiation and all records of the event soon disappeared from the National Archives. The organizer committed suicide.
e0j46 TIL that many scholars believe that nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" is written about the symptoms of Black Death, the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history.