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TIL that there’s a house in the Adirondack Mountains that’s perfectly designed to survive the end of the world.

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Y7ZOr TIL that while attending an Orchestra Manoeuvers In The Dark concert at SXSW Patrick Fagerberg was hit on the head by a 400-pound camera boom after it fell on the audience. Fagerberg developed Savant syndrome from the accident and became a professional painter.
ep615 TIL a researcher studying the 'Club 27' myth found that the most common age of death for musicians is 56, not 27. Among 11,054 musicians who died between 1950 and 2010, 1.3% died at age 27. Also, more musicians died at 28 than 27, and those who died young were more likely to belong to a newer genre.
MbVm TIL that the cast of “School of Rock” played a 10 year anniversary show in a small club. Piano kid seems to lack a cape.
WkXgo TIL that the English word for "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, "alpha" and "beta". The biblical phrase, "alpha and omega", meaning "beginning and end", comes from the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet, "alpha" and "omega".
E11JX TIL that Lucifer, which means bringer of light or refers to the planet Venus, was not equated with Satan in the Bible but in Paradise Lost by Milton.