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TIL that half the DNA on the NYC Subway matches no known organism

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V478 TIL during the recording of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’, the sound of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar caused the monitor speaker in the control room to catch fire during the solo, causing one engineer to exclaim, “This must be REALLY good.”
GY0L4 TIL that Dexter King, Martin Luther King's son, publicily supported James Earl Ray's efforts for a retrial as MLK's family did not believe Ray to be responsible for his death, they instead believed the US Government conspired to assassinate MLK.
Q5wX TIL of a mother who mistakenly sent a female stripper to a high school classroom. The mother meant to send a “Gorilla-Gram” to her son for his birthday. The school officials did nothing and the woman proceeded to strip for the class.
YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.
neG4G TIL CIA did collect Soviet jokes.