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2021-06-28 00:01:07
TIL the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were ordered to take "Olympics" out of the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then retitled the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event" [Source]
291 views21:01
2021-06-27 16:30:06
TIL that the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) holds the record for the band having the most Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hits (20) without a number one single in US chart history. [Source]
309 views13:30
2021-06-25 14:20:00
'The Last Transit of Venus' for Glass Armonica
412 views11:20
2021-06-24 00:01:09
TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school. [Source]
463 views21:01
2021-06-23 16:30:09
TIL a homeless man found a 10 000$ check on the street meant for a real estate broker and found a way to return it. So, touched, the broker awarded him a place to live and arranged for a job interview. A year later, he was on the board of directors of one of their foundations. [Source]
442 views13:30
2021-06-23 00:01:09
TIL about the tabulating machine, which was invented to help process the 1890 Census and spawned the data processing industry, IBM, and modern computing as a whole [Source]
404 views21:01
2021-06-22 16:30:09
TIL when sonar was first invented, operators were puzzled by the appearance of a ‘false seafloor’ that changed depth with the time of day and amount of moonlight. It was eventually identified as a previously unknown layer of billions of lanternfish that reflect sonar waves and migrate up and down. [Source]
381 views13:30
2021-06-22 00:01:11
TIL When his owner died in August 1936, Shep the Dog followed the casket to the railroad station and watched it being loaded onto a train heading to the eastern US. For six years until his own death, he would greet every train that arrived each day, expecting his master to return. [Source]
379 views21:01
2021-06-21 16:30:12
TIL Michael Jackson was a virtuoso composer, despite being unable to read music or play instruments well. He wrote the the parts to his songs by singing and beatboxing into a tape recorder. "“He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything." [Source]
493 views13:30
2021-06-21 00:01:11
TIL that in 1648 an angry mob of Parisians once broke into the royal palace, demanding to see the king. They were led into the bedchamber of Louis XIV, who was pretending to be asleep. Satisfied, the mob quietly departed. [Source]
369 views21:01
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