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TIL that when Screamin’ Jay Hawkins set out to record “I Put A Spell On You” he envisioned it as “a refined ballad”. Before recording, however, he got incredibly drunk, and recorded the version you hear today.

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5YAMr TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
Zp0v4 TIL of Steganography, a field similar to cryptography, but that involves concealing a message rather than encoding it. For example, hiding an image in audio, or even hiding one image in the data of another. A famous example, a POW in Vietnam blinked TORTURE in morse code during a newscast.
NXBje TIL of La Mancha Negra, a mysterious substance that keeps appearing on the roads of Caracas. It has caused multiple fatal accidents, and despite extensive analysis no one really knows what it is.
6En6Y We’ve been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease—but it’s not just about the lungs. Evidence is emerging that the coronavirus can cause heart damage in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. If you've just had Covid—even if you didn't have symptoms—you need to be aware of myocarditis. That’s cardiologist-speak for what happens when the muscular walls of the heart become inflamed, weakening the organ and making it more difficult for it to pump blood. It’s not a newly discovered condition, and it turns up pretty rarely, but when it does, it’s most often triggered by an infection. Strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.
a8nL9 TIL John Carpenter’s “The Thing”(1982) Was Such a Commercial Failure Upon Release That it Was Called the “Most-Hated Film of All Time” by Horror Magazine Cinefantastique and Universal Pictures Even Dropped its Director John Carpenter From a Multi-Picture Deal