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TIL Clint Eastwood has an “undetermined” number of children. At least 7 with 5 different women.

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80WV TIL that there is a musical piece called ‘As SLow aS Possible’, written to be played literally as slow as possible (while strictly adhering to the score’s temporal proportions). An ongoing performance of the score began in a German church in September 5th 2001 and will end on September 5th, 2640.
4X44o TIL A man caught a baby that fell out of a window in Detroit in 1930. A year later, the baby fell again and the same man caught the baby again. The baby and the man were unharmed.
Y7KDG TIL the corpse of an astronaut monkey is preserved at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with its hand placed over its heart
jvgN TIL: Deep Purple were recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records as the “globe’s loudest band” when in a concert at the London Rainbow Theatre their sound reached 117 dB. Three of their audience members were rendered unconscious.
mOLP TIL that a civil jury found found that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been the victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. The King family sought a mere $100 in restitution to show that they were not pursuing the case for financial gain.