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TIL that composer Hans Zimmer has never had any formal music training.

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xgjk TIL that it would take 8 years of yelling at a cup of coffee to heat it
OojRa TIL about George Lincoln Rockwell, an american neonazi, former WW2 vet who was best friends with the nation of Islam's founder the "prophet Elijah Muhammad" , he would famously be quoted declaring "Elijah Muhammad as the Hitler of black people" and the highest respect for the nation of islam
kJdBW TIL that Lacrosse's origins trace back to Indigenous North Americans; YSK that it held cultural significance in addition to sport
jwkR TIL that an extinct bird called Rodrigues Solitaire had strange knob-like balls on its wings. These balls were used by the bird as a deadly weapon to defend territory and its mate, and made a noise like thunder in the distance
0Nep TIL a game company called Stab Yourself made a sequel to Tetris called Not Tetris 2. The game features “realistic physics”, meaning that the blocks have fluid movement and are not confined to the grid, often resulting in the game board becoming an impossible-to-clear mess.