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TIL the Futurama theme song is made entirely of sampled music.

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ADAxg TIL when during a routine appointment, Doctors suggested that jazz legend Miles Davis have a tube implanted to relieve his breathing, Davis was so outraged that he gave himself an intracerebral hemorrhage, which put him in a coma which he never came out of. Life support was turned off and he died.
R7Wr4 TIL that THE FIRST CRIME PERPETRATED IN SPACE was by astronaut Anne McClain, accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station.
GYDV4 TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.
LkrQm TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, was a first-class cricketer. He played 10 games for the MCC between 1900 and 1907, achieving a high score of 43 and taking one wicket. Also, the address 221B Baker street, is just down the road from Cricket's heaven, The Lord's.
PYRAG TIL that a tornado actually starts off in a horizontal position as a rotating mass of air called a wind shear. This is then 'pulled' upright to a vertical position by warm updrafts of air in a thunderstorm. When these spinning columns make contact with the ground a tornado is formed.