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TIL the origins of the US National Anthem (music) was in the UK !

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XErDX TIL of Harold Brown, who in 1978, plummeted 29 floors inside the San Francisco Transamerica building, shouting ""whoopee" all the way down. He survived the fall and was heard singing Camptown Races in the ambulance.