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TIL that the actor Michael J Pollard wrote an inscription that was the inspiration for the classic Traffic song "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys".

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Lev9 TIL The US state of Mississippi ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery on Feb. 7, 2013.
LoQ TIL that all the actors that formed the Fellowship in LOTR got tattoos of the elvish script for “nine” to celebrate the experience of filming, apart from John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
P1pwJ TIL one of the earliest medical descriptions of a phobia was by Hippocrates (460 - 370BC) who recounted a man named Nicanor who apparently suffered from a fear of flute music.
mxaEo TIL, Apr. 18, 1930 is a particularly slow day, that British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) has no news to report & just played Opera music on their airtime.
gwgA TIL that “chemical imbalance” as a cause of depression is overly simplified, and “researchers believe that — more important than levels of specific brain chemicals — nerve cell connections, nerve cell growth, and the functioning of nerve circuits have a major impact on depression.”