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TIL all the stars in the Milky way can fit into the volume of our solar system

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GAJn7 TIL Virtually all dialogue in the movie This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is improvised. Actors were given outlines indicating where scenes would begin and end, but everything else came from the actors. As often as possible, the first take was used in the film, to capture natural reactions.
OoWga TIL of Cottle County, Texas. A rural northern Texas county that voted for the Democrat in every presidential election between 1912 and 1996, except once in 1928.
QJ0Zd TIL that Mitch Mitchell was chosen over Ansley Dunbar to be the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss. He would later not be chosen as the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings when he lost a coin toss.
OoVr1 TIL the day after Memorial Day starts the "100 Deadliest Days" for teen drivers, where fatal accidents involving teen drivers increase by 15% compared to the rest of the year
wWe8 TIL that Islamic architects invented Girih tiles — a set of tiles that can completely cover an unlimited surface in a non-periodic way — five centuries before the modern science rediscovered it as Penrose tiling.