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TIL Rowan Atkinson's role in Love Actually was originally meant to be an Angel, which explains his knowingly helpful appearances.

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rvAy TIL Albert Einstein once declared that his second best idea after the theory of relativity was adding an egg to his soup while it was cooking so he wouldn’t have an extra pot to wash afterwards
69yZm TIL about the Meat-Shaped Stone - a Chinese sculpture carved from banded jasper during the Qing Dynasty and made to look like Dongpo pork - a popular Chinese dish.
R76a9 TIL AC/DC lost lead singer Bon Scott, replaced him with Brian Johnson, then recorded and released Back in Black all in the span of 5 months in 1980. Bonus: Back in Black, AC/DC’s best selling album (25x Platinum) was released merely one year after Highway to Hell, their second best selling album.
ADXAB TIL that the Sun costantly produce a roar of around 290 decibels. If sound could travel in space, it would still be around 125db by the time it reaches Earth, around 13 years later: around the volume of a jackhammer
Rxb1 TIL French numbers are normally expressed in base 10, but numbers 60-99 are expressed in base 20. The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally “four twenties”, and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally “sixty-fifteen”.