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TIL Michael Jackson had an entire shopping mall closed down and had people he knew pretending to be customers, so he could go shopping like a normal person

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mxAnE TIL the record time for driving from NYC to LA (the ~2800 mile/4500 km "Cannonball Run") is 25 hours 39 minutes. To avoid getting stopped, the car was disguised as a pоlіcе interceptor, and had brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera
9wYVm TIL - An Eclipse Never Comes Alone! A solar eclipse always occurs about two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse.
XY0r TIL Every pawn on a chess board was given the name of a commoner’s occupation like Gambler, Innkeeper, etc.
NjD1 TIL that George Lucas was neither the director, producer, or screenwriter for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The film eventually became the most critically acclaimed chapter in the Star Wars saga.
6jgw TIL that Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson visited the US in 1965 and made a speech criticizing American foreign policy; the next day, President Lyndon Johnson invited him to Camp David, grabbed him by the lapels, and said, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”