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TIL the CIA may have written Winds of Change by Scorpions to fell communism.

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8axGL TIL "flushable" wipes cause major clogs in sewers and should not be flushed down the toilet
b6Ze7 TIL Tracy Chapman a was relatively unknown performer invited to play for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party until, due to technical difficulties with Stevie Wonder’s equipment, she was brought back upstage to play Fast Car, silencing the crowd of an estimated 80,000.
69Y48 TIL that salt was used to preserve mummies. They used natron, a salt mix (including table salt) to dehydrate and disinfect them. Natron was quite the hit, and had many many uses: soap, teeth cleanser, mouthwash, insecticide and more
44og TIL Richard Dean Anderson received a special award by the Air Force rarely given to civilians in order to thank him and the other people behind Stargate SG-1 for their very positive portrayal of that organization. Anderson was declared an honorary Air Force brigadier general.
X6ek TIL Keanu Reeves donated all his earnings (> $35 mil) from The Matrix to his special effects team, it made all of them multi-millionaires.