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TIL When filming Wayne’s World, Dana Carvey did not know the words to Bohemian Rhapsody when they filmed everyone singing along in the car.

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mKEY TIL when a script instructed Leonard Nimoy’s character, Spock, to punch someone, Nimoy felt punching was too undignified for a Vulcan and invented a way for Vulcans to render their opponents unconscious by pinching them. From that moment on, the Vulcan Nerve Pinch was born.
DPgg TIL NASA has a radio station, and all they play is alternative rock.
grjb TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.
8aEK TIL Japanese scientists created a virtually painless needle by studying mosquitoes
gMeLy TIL After the US invasion of Kuwait in '91, American fast food restaurants became wildly popular and sprang up all across the country. Kuwait is currently the most obese nation on earth, with bariatric surgery being the most popular elective surgery in the nation.