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TIL that Oscar winning film composer Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, The Lion King) was a member of the band ‘The Buggles’ who sang 'Video Killed the Radio Star’

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b9KwQ TIL Dogs and Cats Cause Over 80,000 Serious Fall Injuries in the US Per Year
j6KpR TIL that after his crew on the USS Tangier performed dismally on a training exercise in Pearl Harbor, Captain Clifton Sprague told them "We’re not prepared. We can’t trust the Japanese. How do you know the Japanese won’t attack tomorrow?" The next day, December 7th, the Japanese attacked.
R5Rja TIL about Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American film star. Her career began in silent movies era and continued to her death. One of the first to adopt the flapper style of the 20s, she was voted “world’s best dressed woman” in 1934. She will be featured in the American Women quarter series.
e0Gek TIL apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas). It is not restricted to just seeing shapes at unexpected places. It also includes perceiving patterns in meaningl
oYKW TIL that the Leica Camera company smuggled hundreds of Jews out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, masquerading the Jews as employees being assigned overseas. The company helped each refugee find a job, gave each of them a Leica camera, and a monthly stipend till they found work.