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TIL Miles Davis improvised and recorded with four sidemen the soundtrack for Elevator to the Gallows while watching the movie for the first time.

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R7ve8 TIL: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's prime; a palindromic prime number (a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one). The name refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell.
VBgZ0 TIL the chief medical examiner of LA county, who performed most of the high profile celeb autopsies in the 60's, was forced to resign after allegations that on hearing the news of RFK being shot, he was seen dancing in his office, saying "i'm going to be famous, i hope he dies"
4XWa TIL that metallic smell from old pennies and keys is actually just the smell of sweat from our bodies reacting with the metal, not the metal itself.
QJXK6 TIL there are over 40,000 unclaimed bodies in morgues across America. Families often don't show up and claim the bodies because they can't afford a funeral for them. They are later buried in mass graves.
J75l TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago