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TIL that Prince wrote - and recorded - the synthesizer part for the Stevie Nicks song Stand Back. She called him the night she came up with the melody, and he came right over, "walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about 25 minutes, and then left."

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kRb5 TIL Rolex strapped a watch onto the robotic arm of a submarine as it dove to the deepest point in the ocean and the watch functioned throughout the whole trip
pYy9b TIL that the British are descended from a tribe of Spanish fishers
kOlQE TIL that methane bubbles can become frozen in place in many lakes such as Lake Baikal in Russia. The ice thickness there can reach 2 m/6.5 ft during the peak of winter coldness, trapping millions of cubic feet of methane gas under the ice until Spring arrives.
X0wk6 TIL that there is only one validated living man born before 1913, and only eight born before 1914.
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