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TIL Inuit choral music in Inuktitut language was published for the first time in 2021 by a music teacher in Nunavut with a PhD in ethnomusicology

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WkXxA TIL: One Third of all the Australian states are named after Queen Victoria. 2/6 Victoria & Queensland
dlQZ TIL that hundreds of people - mainly homeless and drug addicts - and all of whom are HIV positive, are living in a community in the sewers below Romania’s capital Bucharest.
vrQ4 TIL Jake Lloyd, the actor who played young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I, is suffering from schizophrenia and was admitted to a psychiatric facility on April of 2016.
awA1N TIL that proceeds from the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon went towards funding the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Also, the members of the band were a fan of the comedy troupe, and often took breaks in the middle of their recording sessions to watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
b66AE TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596