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TIL that the themesong of the well known show FUTURAMA is based and partially sampled from a 1960s song by french composer Pierre Henry.

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yQrkv [TIL] Of Nicholas Berkeley Mason, the drummer for and only Pink Floyd member to have been featured on all of their studio albums, and also the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965.
4XDn6 TIL in 2014 Oklahoma botched the execution of a man who died of a heart attack after 43 minutes of writhing, groaning, speaking, and even attempting to leave the table, due to untested drugs
XZG6 TIL: Shazam has been around since 2002. Before smartphones you used to have to dial 2580 to Shazam a song. Shazam would then text you with what song it was.
OoGA7 TIL Alexander Litvinenko, before his death as a result of mysterious poisoning, had accused the Russian government of perpetrating a false flag terror attack against Russian civilians, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya.
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