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TIL that the HBO Feature Presentation intro song has an official full length version with lyrics

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M1gK TIL The firemen that went up on Chernobyl’s roof almost instantly received a fatal radiation dose when they looked down into the reactor to extinguish the flames. A scientist later observed their hoses dangling above the reactor, the firemen not there anymore. None were ever seen again.
lomBV TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person gives up on life mentally and dies usually within days. The phenomenon occurs when someone experiences a trauma they feel they cannot escape, and the person views death as their only option.
v111j TIL the Danish Language is so difficult to learn, that Danish children take longer to learn to speak than children from other countries.
J1911 TIL According to George Lucas, R2D2 is the true narrator of Star Wars, and the entire story is an elaborate framing device
NXE86 TIL over 20 million people were killed in Chinese Islamic insurgency in 1860s and 1870s under Qing dysnasty, one province lost 14 million and the neighboring province 6 million