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TIL that the 1962 space-age pop album Latin-esque was recorded with halves of the orchestra in a different studio, separated by almost a city block. It was done to enhance the album's stereo effect, to achieve an exaggerated spatial image.

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X0pYj TIL about Duncan Hamilton, who won the 1953 24 hours @ Le Mans in a Jaguar C-type - while drunk.
0wQDA TIL the 2nd deadliest day for law enforcement in the U.S. was a 1917 bomb attack that killed nine Milwaukee police officers. The original target was a local church but a boy discovered the suspicious package and brought it to the police department, where it exploded. (The deadliest day was 9/11.)
Qmde TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
v1Z0R TIL that it is impossible to predict the paths of colliding billiard balls after only a few collisions. Tiny differences in initial positions accumulate to such a degree that by the sixth or seventh collision even the force of gravity from people standing near the pool table changes the outcome.
R5dm6 TIL John Lennon's song "Imagine" was played at Rosalynn Carter's funeral by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood in church. Even though lyrics say “imagine there’s no heaven”, Jimmy Carter was touched by it and said through his work in 125 countries, the song was used almost equally with national anthems