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TIL actor Christopher Lee released a heavy metal Christmas album

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mLBM TIL in 1984, British comedian Tommy Cooper had a heart attack and died on live television. The audience all assumed it was part of his act and laughed/applauded during his final moments.
4YAg TIL the original TRON (1982) was not considered for a visual effects Oscar because the Academy felt the filmmakers had cheated by using computers.
6EPEZ TIL in South Africa and India, biting ants were used as surgical sutures by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the wound, then breaking off the body.
7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
b9DXE TIL that after executing over 1,000 Ukrainian intellectuals between October 27 and November 3, 1937, Soviet executioner Mikhail Metveyev was given a commemorative gift of a record player/radio and a set of records, for his "selfless work in the struggle against counter-revolution".