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TIL that in addition to being a famous singer, songwriter and musician, Johnny Cash appeared in more than three dozen movies and tv shows. He also hosted Saturday Night Live in 1982.

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QJla TIL that now (2012) there are more than 3000 satellites orbiting the planet
4X8ea TIL that the huge Lake Kivu is one of three lakes known to have limnic eruptions, natural disasters that create CO2 gas clouds that wipe out life in the area. It takes place every 1000 years or so and 2 million people now live in the vicinity.
BleW TIL Mel Blanc’s (the voice of almost every Looney Toons character) grave stone in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery has the words “That’s All Folks” written on it.
mPxM TIL that Grete Waitz, a middle distance runner, was recruited for the 1978 NYC Marathon to set a fast pace and drop out. She kept running, and won the race, setting a world record. As she neared the finish line, no one knew her name, and many thought she was a man with pigtails.
X0rlE TIL in 1966, thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria were massacred in a pogrom. So the Igbo people seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and formed the independent nation of Biafra, resulting in the Nigerian government deliberately starving millions of people in Biafra to death