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TIL Hans Zimmer isolated himself for 30 days in his apartment to help him compose the soundtrack for Interstellar

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8pQX TIL Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire when he let his pickup overheat in a CA forest. When asked why he did it, he responded “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.”
ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.
kOgE1 TIL North Korea law specifies ‘three generations of punishment’. If you commit a crime, your children and grandchildren will also receive the full brunt of punishment, which often involves a lifetime in prison, also children born in prison are raised as prisoners because their “blood is guilty”.
WkyK8 TIL no alarms went off on the day of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion because they'd been disabled to spare workers from being woken up by false alarms.
6lMY TIL that pizza wasn’t popular in the U.S. until after WWII, when U.S. troops (including Dwight Eisenhower) returned home from occupied Italy with an appreciation for Italian pizza.