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TIL the main beat from “All Caps” by MF DOOM is a sample from the 1967 crime drama “Ironside”

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E1BwV TIL Ada Lovelace is called the world's first computer programmer; She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
GYGQ TIL NASA set out to disprove the claims of the “Mayan Apocolypse”, and did.
QJDZE TIL that 965 years ago, a supernova was visible during the day.
oRKRr TIL that in 2007, China built a town named Tianducheng, using various design aspects of Paris. It even has its own version of the Eiffel Tower.
XEOrX TIL that Han Solo was supposed to die in Return of the Jedi. George Lucas was afraid that would affect toy sales, so he changed it to an ewok party.