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TIL: “Teardrop” by Massive Attack was chosen to be the opening sequence of House because the song roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart.

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4kE65 TIL that in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the total number of deaths, including deaths from cancer due to radiation exposure, is 1.
MeWMa TIL in 2013 a Nike ad featuring Oscar Pistorius and the slogan "I am the bullet in the chamber" was pulled from Pistorius' site after he was charged with murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend.
EpjX TIL Esurance got rid of their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance after she was featured in a massive amount of fan made pornography.
A7dd TIL that a flight attendant survived falling 33,000 feet after her plane was destroyed by a bomb. It’s the longest anyone’s even fallen and lived.
lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.