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TIL Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella in 2008, and a mobile phone video of it was uploaded to Youtube. Prince quickly made Youtube remove it. After finding out about the blocking, Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke said “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.”

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p818N TIL that garbha Upanishad(esoteric doctrine over the embryo),a hindu upanishadic texts deal with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth.in section 3 it gives an idea about how embryo develops.
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kl85 TIL French poet Gérard de Nerval supposedly took a lobster on walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon, saying “they are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.”
Me64B TIL The band Franz Ferdinand's name was inspired by a racehorse called Archduke Ferdinand. The horse won the Northumberland Plate in 2001 and the band liked the alliteration. Additionally the band wanted a name that would imply their music would transform the world; like Ferdinand's death did.
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