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TIL That famed music composer, Danny Elfman, is also the singing voice of Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas

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6JkZ TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.
0wkWR TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”
RjY8 TIL that in 1958 the US government funded a experiment to try to get dolphins to talk with humans by having a human and dolphin live together. When the dolphin went through adolescence he tried courting the woman, and she began to give him hand jobs, which made him more receptive to the lessons.
KOyWE TIL: Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" didn't have a musical soundtrack because he wanted the auditory focus of the movie to be on the unsettling and experimental electronic sounds produced by a strange instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the analogue synthesizer.
WkWVA TIL that New York City offers so-called Friendship Benches, a program first used in Zimbabwe, where peers offer an ear to people who are suffering from depression but are not in a position to seek professional therapy.