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TIL that Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, who had removed his own appendix, was the first surgeon to bring music into the operating room

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rN66W TIL, it is probable that severe bleeding hemorrhoids were the cause of the death of the Scottish explorer David Livingstone at the end of his third African journey
Z84EG TIL in 1996, David Bowie released the first downloadable song by a major artist (it took 11 minutes to download). He later launched an ISP (BowieNet) to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and "uncensored" Internet access.
xn55 TIL of the Shadow Biosphere. A hypothesis proposing the existence of lifeforms undetected by standard methods. One such being the continuation of the RNA World
ZpvMR TIL: Benedictine Monks in Oregon brew a beer at the Mt. Angel Abbey named "Black Habit"
Eg1Bp TIL that Steve McQueen was on Charles Manson’s ‘Hit List’ and was meant to be assassinated like Sharon Tate in 1969