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TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"

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epkng TIL Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died of a heart attack rumored to be caused by an orgasm during intercourse with his secretary. When he died the New York Times quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".
wE7Y [TIL] Schwarzenegger’s over-hyped ‘Last Action Hero’ bought a $500,000 advertisement on the side of a rocket who’s launch into space was delayed for technical reasons until a month after the movie had flopped at the box office.
9Kmr TIL White asparagus is the same as green asparagus except that it’s kept buried when growing so no photosynthesis occurs
OGErX TIL that in 1989, Patricia Stallings was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her first son via antifreeze poisoning. and had another son who was taken to foster care but was diagnosed with MMA, a genetic disorder. It was found that the first son also had MMA, and Stallings was released.
loAjG TIL about the blackpoll warbler, a 5-inch-long bird that weighs about as much as a ballpoint pen. In their fall migration they take off from the northeastern US and don't stop flying until they reach South America- 72 to 88 hours and 1900 miles of nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean is involved.