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TIL that Christopher Lee released a Symphonic Metal album about Charlemagne in 2010 and won the “Spirit of Metal” award.

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E1VVw A third of Americans believe Covid-19 laboratory conspiracy theory.
QJjZ6 TIL the voice of the primary Soviet radio announcer during WW2, a Jewish man named Yuri Levitan, was so unique and inspiring that Hitler personally placed a bounty (250,000 Reichsmarks, which is roughly $1.3 million dollars in today’s currency) on him.
o76W TIL Japan has a serious problem with young men becoming extreme shut-ins called hikikomori who will sometimes go years at a time without leaving their rooms.
0wNgj TIL that in 1959 Colonel William Rankin became the only known person to survive a fall through a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud and suffered from frostbite, welts, bruises, and severe decompression as a result of the 40 minute fall.
GYwgj TIL that the song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by Sublime isn't about the South Central Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four police police officers in the beating of Rodney King. It's about the Long Beach, CA riots that erupted a few days later as a result of the South Central riots.