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TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.

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GAMRG TIL as Spielberg was filming Jurassic Park's climatic scene as originally scripted (with the velociraptors defeated by Dr. Alan Grant & John Hammond), he had the last-minute idea to bring back the T-Rex for the climax. As an "off-the-cuff thing", the physical effects had to be setup in about 24 hrs.
D1l8V TIL about the Tărtăria tablets, discovered in 1961 in Romania. It is believed that that the symbols are linked to Sumerian culture and represent the earliest known form of writing in the world
b9brE TIL in 1909, the first truly salacious hit song “I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife—But Oh! You Kid!” made the leap from vaudeville stage to the sheet music stands of a million parlor room pianos in America, inciting newspaper editorials, outraged sermons by preachers, and at least one fatal shooting.
1vr4 TIL that children’s author Roald Dahl was given a ‘Viking funeral’, and buried with wine, snooker cues, pencils and a power saw
D1jPe TIL that after the Panic of 1837, Richard Mentor Johnson, the incumbent Vice President, returned to his home state in Kentucky and opened a tavern and spa on his farm to offset his continued financial struggles.