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TIL that Joyce Vincent was a 38-year-old woman who died in her London apartment while watching TV. Her body wasn't discovered until nearly three years later when officials arrived to repossess the apartment for unpaid rent.

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jNW8n TIL that the Beatles spent 34 hours recording the song "A Day in the Life" as they needed multiple takes to perfect the orchestral parts and the famous final chord. By contrast, the Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, had been recorded in its entirety in only 15 hours, 45 minutes.
x68w5 TIL Mozart's middle name is not Amadeus. It's a latinized version of his real middle name Theophilus and probably facetious.
4kn5J TIL: Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada, had a lifespan that overlapped with the lives of every single other Canadian PM, from Sir. John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
6Vv7 TIL that penguins can drink salt water because they have a supraorbital gland, which lets them filtrate the salt from the water.