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TIL that Tim Smith, founder of the band "Cardiac Arrest", eventually suffered a heart attack.

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VBkxm TIL NASA astronaut Michael Foale was on board Mir when an uncrewed resupply spacecraft collided with it, damaging one of the modules and causing an air leak.
kOXpe TIL that Carlos Kaiser was a professional soccer player signed for many clubs without having played a single professional game. He "wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football",would sign short contracts based on recommendations of his football friends and fake injuries!
LkyDr TIL that one of the earliest instances of Phreaking, (hacking into telephone lines,) was discovered via blowing a Captain Crunch toy whistle into a phone line. This toy , coincidentally, rang at 2600 Hz, which is the exact tone that At&T used to determine that a caller had hung up.
Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”
4XxXo TIL that the French prime minister insisted that his cabinet watch the film La Haine (Hate)