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TIL Alan Parsons (the audio engineer of Dark Side of the Moon) rejected Pink Floyd’s invitation to work as the audio engineer of “Wish You Were Here” and started Alan Parsons Project

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R7kxw TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
PK4Z TIL There is a library in Estonian airport, where you can borrow books for your trip and the whole thing operates off an honor system.
DQD1g TIL that due to airflow, all single rotor helicopters have the same speed limit 250 mph (402 km/h)
QGlX TIL that it is a myth that Albert Einstein failed maths as a student: “Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus”
9gpX TIL: Martin Luther King Jr’s son met James Earl Ray asking him, “I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?” Ray replied, “No-no I didn’t,” and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family urged that Ray be granted a new trial.