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TIL In 1989, Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played George Jefferson on sitcoms The Jeffersons and All In The Family, was also a jazz keyboardist- and he released a single, "Ain't That a Kick in the Head." This was followed in 1992 by Dance, an album of rhythm and blues music.

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95wm TIL the Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means “8th month”, November means “9th month”, and December means “10th month.”
GYvOE TIL the famous "Mushroom" red sandstone rock is located in Timna Valley (תִּמְנָע), southern Israel, and the rock formation is a called hoodoo.
nRlr TIL in 1973 two men were stranded 1,575 feet below the ocean when their submarine buoyancy tank inadvertently flooded. They were rescued after 76 hours with only 12 minutes of air remaining. It was the deepest underwater rescue mission in history.
97Nr TIL in 1978, then-NBA center Clifford Ray saved a dolphin’s life by using his 45 inch reach to grab a screw the dolphin had swallowed. He received instruction over the phone from a veterinarian, who told him how to reach up and into the dolphin’s second stomach to extract the screw.
rM9w TIL at a soccer match in Brazil in 2013, a referee stabbed a player to death. He was then quartered and decapitated using a sickle and his severed head was placed on a spike on the field.