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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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xNW5 TIL that, despite having sold 40 million records worldwide, Rick Astley abruptly retired from music in 1993, at the age of 27, in order to spend more time with his newborn daughter. He wouldn’t produce any new material for the next 10 years, and it was another 14 before he went back on tour.
erPg TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that one day “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance… we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face” through devices able to fit into a vest pocket.
4XwbN TIL Will Smith was about to declare bankruptcy until he was picked to star in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and had to pay the IRS 70% of his salary over the first three seasons
MYn0 TIL Jon Burge, Chicago Police Comander, tortured black people for 30 years and wondered out loud if jury would “believe that bunch of niggers.” Only gets convicted of perjury after years of support by Fraternal Order of Police
ZbRB TIL 10 days into the shoot for The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen suffered a reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore; the powder he breathed in daily as it was applied had coated his lungs. Ebsen was hospitalized in critical condition. He was later put in an iron lung.